Treasury

Welcome to our digital Treasury. Here we publish some of the best essays from our Dutch journal Nexus in English, reviews of recent books and videos of our events.

Media

Theme

History

Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts

The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind

Pick sees both the necessity of the wartime militarization of psychoanalysis and the impossibility of accepting the theoretical principles upon which this was ostensibly based.

Philosophy

Grundriß einer demokratischen Sittlichkeit

Das Recht der Freiheit

Honneth follows Durkheim instead of Marx in interpreting the capitalist market not as system of domination but as an institution that promises the general realization of individual interests and capacities.

Literature

Im Raum der Stille: Lektüren

Simply following Steiner’s train of thought constitutes a broadening of the reader's horizon

Culture

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Josipovici portrays modern English literature as ‘anecdotal’, ‘smooth’, ‘complacent’, ‘predictable’, ‘comforting’, ‘constricting’ the sum total leaving him with a feeling that ‘the world has been made smaller and meaner’.

Biography

Reading Huizinga

Huizinga can find revelation in the clash of armies, in Jan van Eyck’s signature as witness to Giovanni Arnolfini’s wedding or the shimmering blue and yellow of a Vermeer dress.
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Rob Riemen introduces Philippe de Montebello

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Culture

George Steiner

Why didn’t music say no?

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Nexus Symposium 2010 part I Mario Vargas Llosa

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Nexus Symposium 2010 part IV Frits Bolkestein