Beyond Ideology: Inside Hungary’s Illiberal Pragmatism I Andrea Pető, Michał Kozłowski
In this episode, philosopher and sociologist Michał Kozłowski speaks with Professor Andrea Pető, one of the leading scholars of gender, memory politics, and illiberalism, to explore contemporary Hungary as a political laboratory of the 21st century.
The conversation offers a deep analysis of Viktor Orbán’s regime, understood not as a coherent ideological project, but as a system driven by what Pető calls illiberal pragmatism. Rather than producing stable values, this model operates through flexibility, opportunism, and strategic adaptation to shifting political and economic conditions.
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