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Ferenc Hörcher

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Ferenc Hörcher

@HorcherF

Philosophy, poetry, @UpsPolitics, ELTE RCH, @CBPhull. An Aristotelian Philosophy of Civility. Culture and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2026)

Budapest

ripg.uni-nke.hu/horcherf

Joined October 2019

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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Mar 19
Professional update: I won a visiting research fellowship 2026, to the Politics Department of @Princeton University, generously sponsored by the James @MadisonProgram, led by @McCormickProf. My research topic is: Township, Subsidiarity, Oikophilia: In Defence of the Local. 2/1
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Aug 29, 2025
Does the idea of a personal library still exist?
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Oct 12, 2025
In case László Krasznahorkai's Nobel prize in literature encourages you to get a closer look at Hungarian literature, here comes a very subejective list of 12 relevant authors who published in Hungarian, and who can appeal to today's readers in translation, too. 13/1
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Aug 30, 2025
One of my favourites: John Lukacs's personal library.
Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Aug 29, 2025
Does the idea of a personal library still exist?
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Apr 24, 2025
Cardinal Erdő: "relativism- the inability to declare something as objectively right or ...wrong-is a "grave crisis" of modern secular states. Without a foundation in natural law, he argued, societies become unstable, and moral evil becomes permissible."
EWTN News
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
May 12, 2025
This is going to be a good overview of the year-long efforts of our group, to turn attention and this way to revitalise Anglo-American intellectual conservatism - in the spirit of Roger Scruton.
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Oct 8, 2024
Scruton was known to make use of the following working method: to wake up, sit to his desk and start writing. Had a craftsman's attitude: he had to produce a daily ration. To achieve something great, you have to be disciplined. Sir Roger Scruton at his desk | Lindsey Dearnley
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Nov 24, 2022
What is new, what is old?
Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Apr 26, 2024
If you are interested in one of these, you might want to read the other one, as well.
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Jan 6, 2025
Prepare for a major publication in intellectual history on THE WESTERN TRADITION This is going to be a huge 2 volumes set to be published this spring by James Hankins @JamesWHankins1 and Allen C. Guelzo with Enclounter Books. A hint of an intro: x/1 thegoldenthreadinitiative.com/the-golden-thr…
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Apr 17, 2024
Scruton on Weil: "She identified the chief evil of modern civilisation as déracinement, and attempted to analyse the enracinement (putting down of roots) that had protected humanity in the past, and might again protect it in the future, from social corrosion."
Mark W.
@DurhamWASP
Apr 17, 2024
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” Simone Weil
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Dec 17, 2024
This one, the printed version, has just arrived!
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Feb 9, 2023
The book-length output of my last four years: - A Political Philosophy of Conservatism (2020) - The Political Philosophy of the European City (2021) - Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy (2023)
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Ferenc Hörcher
@HorcherF
Apr 9, 2025
How about Shakespeare and politics?
Bret van den Brink
@BretVDB
Apr 9, 2025
Beautiful studies of theology and the bard.
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