Ludovika University of Public Service
Research Institute for Politics and Government

Ferenc HÖRCHER

Degrees: MA in Hungarian and English Language, Aesthetics (Budapest, Hungary), visiting graduate (Oxford, UK) MA in Legal Theory  (Brussels/Leuven, Belgium), PhD, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Research interests: conservatism and liberalism, early modern political thought, classical Hungarian political thought, philosophy of art

Publications: MTMT

Membership: Michael Oakeshott Association, Hume Society, Society for 18th Century Scottish Studies, European Association for Urban History  

Contact: horcher.ferenc[at]uni-nke.hu; Academia.edu; Google Scholar; ResearchGate

Projects: British Conservative Thought in a European Context; Traditions of Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought

 

Ferenc Hörcher (1964) political philosopher, historian of political thought, philosopher of art, literary critic, poet.

Head of the Research Institute for Politics and Government, Research Professor, Scientific Advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN. Senior fellow at the Centre for British Politics, University of Hull, UK. Visiting Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland), Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Researcher at universities and research institutes (for periods of more than three months) in Vienna (Austria), Göttingen (Germany), Wassenaar (Netherlands), Cambridge (UK), Edinburgh (UK), Notre Dame University (USA). Research interests - conservatism and liberalism, early modern (Hungarian and universal) history of political thought, classical Hungarian political thought, early modern and contemporary philosophy of art.


Selected publications:

Hörcher, Ferenc: “Beyond the Window That Can Never Be Opened”—Roger Scruton on “Moments of Revelation” in Human Life, RELIGIONS 15 : 4 pp. 1-15. Paper: 485, 15 p. (2024)


Hörcher, Ferenc: Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy, Cham, Svájc : Palgrave Macmillan (2023)


Ferenc Hörcher: The Political Philosophy of the European City, Rowman and Littlefield (2021)


Ferenc Hörcher: A Political Philosophy of Conservatism, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, etc. (2020)


Hörcher, Ferenc : Culture, Self-Formation and Community-Building: The Bildungsideal from the Perspective of the Intellectual History of Civil Sociability, Ethos: Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawla II, KUL 28 : 109 (2015)  pp. 64-83