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In this tightly woven collection of thematic essays, the authors trace the moderate pragmatic tradition in Hungarian political thought since the sixteenth century. By means of twelve original case studies, the writers demonstrate how a practical approach to politics may be combined with the pursuit of ideals. * Dr Gábor Bátonyi, Assistant Professor, University of Bradford, UK * This is a valuable collection of original research papers, which illustrate aspects of thinking about Hungarian politics from the age of Turkish conquest through to the era of the cold war. A number of neglected theorists are rediscovered here, alongside the main themes of collective and individual liberties in a country where these were often under threat: they present some distinctive approaches to the classic issues of freedom in the Western tradition from writers who more or less consciously stood on its periphery. * Robert Evans, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Oxford, UK *

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Ferenc Hörcher is a historian of political thought and political philosopher. He is head of the Research Institute of Politics and Government of Ludovika University of Public Service, Hungary, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN. He is a senior fellow at the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull, in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the editorial board of Politeja, Krakow. He is co-editor, along with Thomas Lorman, of A History of the Hungarian Constitution (Bloomsbury, 2018) and with Kálmán Tóth, of 19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture: Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790-1867 (Bloomsbury, 2023). Ádám Smrcz is a philosopher and intellectual historian. He is research fellow at the Research Institute of Politics and Government of Ludovika University of Public Service, Hungary, and teaches at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. He has published on Justus Lipsius and neo-Stoicism, Francisco Suárez and natural law, the economic thought of Adam Smith and David Hume and on Tocqueville, among others, in scholarly journals. He is a member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal Ruch Filozoficzny.

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