Arpad Szakolczai

Arpad Szakolczai is a Board Member of VoegelinView. He was born and raised in Hungary, has a PhD in Economics from University of Texas, Austin, taught social and political theory at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland, and now Senior Fellow at the St. Gallen Collegium of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (2025-26). His recent books include Permanent Liminality and Modernity (Routledge, 2017); From Anthropology to Social Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2019, with Bjørn Thomassen); The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology (Routledge, 2020, with Agnes Horvath), Post-Truth Society: A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic (Routledge, 2022), and Political Anthropology as Method (Routledge, 2023). He edited with Paul O’Connor the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology, published September 2025.