Nexus Institute

The Nexus Institute, founded in 1994 by Rob Riemen, brings together the world’s foremost intellectuals, artists and politicians, and has them think and talk about the questions that really matter. How are we to live? How can we shape our future? Can we learn from our past? Which values and ideas are important, and what are their premises?

In doing so, the Nexus Institute places itself at the very centre of the Western cultural and philosophical debate. In the best European humanist tradition, its annual Conferences and Lectures, open to all and visited by over a thousand people, have become one of Europe’s most prestigious platforms for informed intellectual debate on pressing contemporary issues. The same spirit of tolerance and erudition is upheld in the Nexus Symposia and Masterclasses.

Nexus Publishers

The Dutch essayist journal Nexus (junction, connection) appears three times a year, since 1991. Writers from around the world are asked to contribute essays on themes relating to the philosophy of culture.

English or bilingual editions in the beautiful and bound series of the Nexus Library are:
 Sonia Gandhi – Living Politics. What India has taught me
 George Steiner – The Idea of Europe (sold out)
 Jonathan Sacks – Hope and Tragedy
 Daniel Barenboim – The Ethics of Aesthetics