History, Music, Society
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.
History, Music, Society
The Power of Music – public conversation
Nexus
Opening Rob Riemen – Symposium 2014
Society
Fatherlands in Mothers’ Hands
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics
Bringing together psychoanalysis and politics has always been a fascinating, yet challenging task. Salgó attempts to ‘wed’ psychoanalysis with politics. And just as every marriage, this attempt comes with its happy moments as well as its weaknesses.
Literature
Love & Literature – Q&A
Literature
Love & Literature – masterclass
Nexus
Introduction Rob Riemen – Nexus Masterclass 2014
Culture
and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy
The Two Latin Cultures
This magnificent study, to which no brief summary can do justice, offers a narrative of uncommon density, built upon and expanding a massive body of scholarship.
Music
A Life in Music
Richard Wagner
Geck indirectly shows us the profound transformative force which Wagner retains to this very day and which transcends his life and music.
Politics, Society
Power and Justice — Q&A
Politics, Society
Power and Justice — masterclass
Nexus
Welcome Rob Riemen – Nexus Masterclass 2013
Philosophy
Friendship
Grayling seeks to define friendship and, in so doing, explores its many forms, facets, charms, and consolations.
History
The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Vanished Kingdoms
His main priorities are, as he states, to highlight the contrast between times present and times past and to explore the workings of historical memory.
Science
Letters to a Young Scientist
We get to know E.O. Wilson as a man who likes to solve the puzzles nature has in store, and through this process comes to some great discoveries.
Culture
Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don’t Exist
To Save Everything, Click Here
The phenomena we frame as problems and try to eliminate once and for all should actually be recognized as blessings which contribute in wholly constructive ways to our human well-being and societal organization.
Society
The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Together
Through colonising people’s life world, the managerial imperative empties informality of content and then recycles it as a tool of management.
Humanism
Rückblicke und Vorblicke
Was ist ein Intellektueller?
Since making one’s standpoint known in public is inevitably part of the concept of the intellectual, it is seen as a phenomenon of (mass media) modernity by most scholars.
Society
How Much is Enough — debate
Society
Keynote Robert Skidelsky – Nexus Symposium 2013
Nexus
Welcome Rob Riemen – Nexus Symposium 2013
Society
The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life
How Much is Enough
Modern liberal theory and neoclassical economics have a virtual monopoly on public discourse.
History
The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Iron Curtain
The author’s sensibility, her insights into and delicate description of people’s moral and psychological collapse, make the book particularly powerful.
History
The Song Transformation of China
The Age of Confucian Rule
It was the ethical and philosophical quests by Song intellectuals that shaped Neo-Confucian ideology into the persisting foundation of the Chinese civilized state.