Agnes Horvath

is an affiliated scholar (Catholic University of Milan), she's based in Florence, Italy. Has PhD in social and political sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (2000). MA with highest distinction from the University of Economics, Budapest. Taught for several years at the Departments of Politics, Sociology and History in Budapest, in Cork and Milan. She is Chief and Founding editor of the academic journal International Political Anthropology. President of the Marsilio Ficino association in Florence. Her research interests focus on matters related to mimesis, schismogenetic moments and trickster formations, action and integrity. Her publications include articles and chapters in Hungarian, English, Italian and French, most recently

· ‘Pulcinella, or the metaphysics of the nulla: In between politics and theatre’ (History of the Human Sciences, April 2010; vol. 23, 2: pp. 47-67) http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav,

· ‘Liminality and the Unreal Class of the Image-making Craft: An Essay on Political Alchemy’ (International Political Anthropology,  Nov. 2009; vol. 2)  www.politicalanthropology.org,

· ‘Mimetic Errors in Liminal Schismogenesis: On the Political Anthropology of the Trickster’ (With Bjorn Thomassen) (May. 2008; vol.1) www.politicalanthropology.org

·  ‘Turning Iconoclasm into Golden Age’ (International Political Anthropology, Nov. 2008; vol. 1) www.politicalanthropology.org

·  ‘The Trickster Motive in Renaissance Political Thought’ (Philosophia, no.1-2, 2007: 79-95)http://www.studia.ubbcluj.ro/serii/philosophia/philosophia_cncsis_en.html, www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id.

·  ‘Mythology and the Trickster: Interpreting Communism’, in Alexander Wöll and Harald Wydra (eds) Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (London: Routledge, 2008), http://books.google.it/books?isbn=041542822X...books.google.it/books?id=3nukfuBnpnMC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=Alexander+Wöll+and+Harald+Wydra+(eds)+Democracy+and+Myth+in+Russia+and+Eastern+Europe+(London:+

· as well as two co- authored books: Senkiföldjén [On the No Man’s Land] (Budapest: Akadémiai, 1989) and

· The Dissolution of Communist Power (London: Routledge, 1992) http://www.google.it/#sclient=psy&hl=it&tbs=bks:1&q=Horvath%2C+A.+and+Szakolczai%2C+A.+(1992).+The+Dissolution+of+Communist+Power%3B+The+Case+of+Hungary.+(London:+Routledge.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

AGNES HORVATH has a PhD in social and political sciences from the European

University Institute in Florence (2000), and teaches political anthropology at the

Catholic University of Milan. She is one of the founding editors of the academic journal

International Political Anthropology. Her research interests focus on matters related to

mimesis, schismogenetic moments and trickster formations. Her publications include

articles and chapters in Hungarian, English, Italian and French, most recently ‘The

Trickster Motive in Renaissance Political Thought’ (Philosophia, 2007), ‘Mythology

and the Trickster: Interpreting Communism’, in Alexander Wöll and Harald Wydra

(eds) Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (London: Routledge, 2008),

‘Pulcinella, or the metaphysics of the nulla: In between politics and theatre’ (History of the

Human Sciences, 2010), and articles in International Political Anthropology, as well as two

co- authored books: Senkiföldjén [On the No Man’s Land] (Budapest: Akadémiai, 1989)

and The Dissolution of Communist Power (London: Routledge, 1992).

Address: Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy. [email: Agnes.Horvath (at) unicatt.it;

ipa.amf (at) gmail.com]