Dr. Nóra Horváth

Dr. Nóra Horváth is a philosopher, art writer, habilitated associate professor at Széchenyi István University. Editor-in-chief of Műhely, as well as the head of Műhely Kiadó. Her first book was published under the title 'Lovers of beauty' - George Santayana and his contemporaries in 2019 (JatePress, Szeged). Her fields of research are: somaesthetics, aesthetics of existence, the relationship between dance and philosophy, and the philosophical approach of Pál Frenák's oeuvre. Since 2001, she has been publishing regularly and appearing at domestic and foreign conferences. Between 2021 and 2024, she continued her research in the scholarship program of the Hungarian Academy of Arts under the title From Inspirations to Traces - In the footsteps of Pál Frenák's artistic world. His second book, Abécédaire of Pál Frenák - Transverses between philosophy and FrenÁk's organic movement language, was published in Hungarian and English in 2022. From 2019, he is a philosophical consultant for Frenák's plays, then a dramaturg (Cage (2019), Spid_er (2020), Fig_Ht (2021), Secret Off_Man (2022), Running Time – Tricks3 (2023), CrAzy_RunnErs / Parad_Is_E (2024).

Publications

(2022) - “Közelítések a művészetfilozófia és interpretáció alternatívái között – Horváth Nóra és Mitnyán Lajos eszmecseréje” Közösségi Kapcsolódások 2022(1), 124–130. DOI 10.14232/kapocs.2022.1.124-130
(2022) - Frenák Pál Abécédaire-je. Átjárások a filozófia és FrenÁk organikus mozgásnyelve között. Budapest: Kortárs Táncért és Jelelő Színházért Alapítvány.
(2022) - L’abécédaire Of Pál Frenák. Transverses Between Philosophy and the Organic Movement Language of FrenÁk. Budapest: Kortárs Táncért és Jelelő Színházért Alapítvány.
(2019) - „A szépség szeretői” – George Santayana és kortársai. Szeged: JatePress.
(2018) - “As Close As Possible To The Ungraspable – Somaesthetical And Deleuzian Investigations On The Choreographical Work Of Pál Frenák” Pragmatism Today 9:1, pp. 80-90.
(2018) - “Santayana on Embodiment, the Art of Living, and Sexual Aesthetics” In: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics. Ed. Richard Shusterman, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 180-196.