INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VOL. 18 (2025) NO. 1

Contents

• Contents Page

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• A Tribute to Arpad Szakolczai

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  Bjørn Thomassen

• ARTICLES

• Strangers Bearing Gifts: On the Irish Pilgrimage of Arpad Szakolczai

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  Tom Boland, Kieran Keohane & John O’Brien

• Virtual Reality - Suspension in the In-Between

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  Kate Bollard

• Modernity and ‘The Sage’: Religio/Political Dimensions of Intellectual Formation in the Context of Contemporary Liminality, the Case of Colin Wilson

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  Peter McMylor

• An Arrow’s Flight in Time: A Tribute to Arpad Szakolczai

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  Camil Roman

• A World Turned Upside Down: Permanent Liminality and the ‘Unreal Reality’ of Hypermodernity

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  Paul O'Connor

• The Rise and Decline of the Political West

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  Richard Sakwa

• Sociology as the diagnosis of the modes of existence in untruth – or something more? Autobiographical reflections on the formative role of Arpad Szakolczai’s work genealog

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  Cesare Silla

• Curtain

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  Zoltán Balázs

• The Engaged Outsider: Hermann Hesse's Spiritual Revolution

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  Harald Wydra

• NOTES ON AUTHORS

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