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The Intellectual History of the City

Modern Western political thought is obsessed with the state. However, since Aristotle, it is obvious that the primary scale for human politics is the city (town, polis, city-state, etc). While modern and post-modern challenges to the state opened up new, even wider vistas (empire, global governance), the local is still very much in the shadow in theory and in practice as well. The Reasearch Group in Moral and Political Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences started this research project to bring the intellectual history and political theory of the city back to scholarly and public discussion.

Ferenc Hörcher, senior researcher, director

Upcoming Events

Hamlet in Wittenberg: Civic and Princely Education in Early Modern Europe (Budapest, date: TBA)

Earlier events

Polgári öntudat, városfejlesztés és önkormányzati modellek Magyarországon és Európában. A közepes és kisebb városok példája (Balatonfüred, 6-7 April 2018)

Ratio Civilis: The Transformation of Urban Political Cultures in the Age of the Reformation (Budapest, 17-18 November 2017)

Modern Capitals and Historical Peripheries: Central Europe from the Perspectives of Contested Modernities (Budapest, 201-21 October 2017)

Earlier and present cooperating partners

Department of Philosophy and Communication, Faculty of Creative Industries, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Department of Urban Planning and Design, Budapest Technical University
Hungarian Society for Urban Planning
The Journal Tempevölgy
The Local Council of Balatonfüred

Lendület "Morals and Science" Research Group

The homepage of the Lendület research group on "Morals and values in modern science" can be accessed here.
Bíró, Gábor István	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166
Demeter, Tamás (research group leader)	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4164
Hartl, Péter	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166
Kertész, Gergely	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166
Tuboly, Ádám Tamás	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166
Zemplén, Gábor	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4164
Zuh, Deodáth	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166

CFP: Modern Capitals and Historical Peripheries

Submissions are invited for the conference "Modern Capitals and Historical Peripheries - Central Europe from the Perspective of Contested Modernities" to be held on 20-21 October 2017 at the Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The details of the CFP are available here.

History of Hungarian Philosophy

We focus on the history of Hungarian philosophy, intellectual history as well as history of Hungarian science and humanities in international context, especially from the point of view of the comparative history of Central-European cultures of philosophy. An eminent feature of our work is reflection on methodology as well as on the historiography of philosophy, especially in Hungarian and Central-European context, with regard to the interconnected development of historical narratives on philosophy, humanities, and natural sciences.
Gángó, Gábor*	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +36 1 224 6700/4188
Kovács, Gábor	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: + 36 1 224 6700/4191
Mester, Béla	Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: + 36 1 224 6700/4191
He is currently a visiting researcher in Germany in the framework of the MWK-FELLOWS COFUND-Fellowship* with the topic of Leibniz and East Europe: Aspects of Power- and Religion-politics (Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien der Universität Erfurt)

Ferenc Hörcher's lecture in London

Ferenc Hörcher, director of the Institute of Philosophy (Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) is giving a public lecture entitled 'The Hungarian Constitutional Moment of 1848 and its Meaning Today' on 15 March 2017 at the University College London, with opening remarks by Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Hungary’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom.