Ferenc Hörcher (1964) political philosopher, political historian, aesthete, literary critic. He studied at Budapest, Oxford (United Kingdom) and Brussels/Leuven (Belgium). Head of the Institute of Political and State Theory Research Institute, scientific advisor of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.  As a visiting teacher, he taught at the following universities: Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland), Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania). As a researcher, he has been researched at the following universities and research institutes (for more than three months): Vienna (Austria), Göttingen (Germany), Wassenaar (Netherlands), Cambridge (United Kingdom), Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Notre Dame University (USA). His research interests - conservatism and liberalism, early modern (Hungarian and universal) political ideology, classical Hungarian political thinking, early modern and contemporary art philosophy.