Mario Vargas Llosa on The Culture That Was
Channel: TheNexusInstitute
Date: 2013-08-07

Fragments of the Nexus Lecture 2013 and the interview by Rob Riemen.

It seems like culture is on sale everywhere and only spectacle counts. In his 2013 Nexus Lecture, 'The Future of Humanism', Nobel Prize Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa identifies the general loss of authority as one of the main causes of today's slump in education, art and politics.

In a public discussion with Rob Riemen, Vargas Llosa makes a passionate plea for reading books, as a means to secure the future of humanism.

Both the lecture and the interview have been published in the Nexus Library Series: 'The Culture That Was'.
https://nexus-instituut.nl/nexus-publications/nexus-library/39-the-culture-that-was