NEXUS INSTITUTE |
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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 a platform for informed intellectual debate on pressing contemporary issues. The same spirit of tolerance and erudition
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The institute was established 9 September 1994. 25 Years later, during the Nexus Symposium "The Magic Mountain Revisited" and the speakers dinner afterwards, attention was given to this. January 2021, it will be celebrated that 30 years ago the journal Nexus began (Nexus 1, 'In den beginne').
This issue started with the following quotation, to which the Nexus Institute to this day subscribes: 'Chaque homme assez fortuné pour bénéficier plus ou moins de ce legs de culture me paraissait chargé d'un fidéicommis à l'égard du genre humain.' (I believe that everyone who has the good fortune to draw some benefit from that cultural heritage has an obligation to pass it on to humanity). (Marguerite Yourcenar) |
A Brief History Activities Publications Memberships Since 1991 |
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September 9, 2019, the NEXUS Institute was founded. The 25st anniversary was celebrated during the Symposium 'The Magic Mountain Revisited', a symposium based on the novel of Thomas Mann, which is no less than a timeless document of European humanism and which point us the way to a new confidence in life, increases our awareness of everything that really matters, and our responsibility in all of this. And it is precisely this that is the essence of all Bildung, of all spiritual education. |
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HOW IT (NEXUS) STARTED
From: Georges Steiner, The Idea of Europe, Nexus Institute 2004, pp. 8 and 9. Introduction by Rob Riemen. |
The very first issue of Nexus (1, 1991) started with the following quotation, to which we to this day subscribe: (I believe that everyone who has the good fortune to draw some benefit from that cultural heritage has an obligation to pass it on to humanity). |