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Palonen

Politics and Conceptual Histories

Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives
Nomos,  2015, 346 Pages, E-Book

ISBN 978-3-8452-5285-8

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englischThe international expansion of conceptual historical research during last 20 years is a remarkable turn in the academia. The conceptual confrontation of different approaches, themes and forms of research has reached several academic fields in numerous countries. From the 1990s to the present Kari Palonen has shaped and supported this change with his emphasis on its role for the study of politics.

The chapters of this volume offer a testimony of the changing awareness, new thematics and multiple research orientations of this story. Palonen discusses the works of Reinhart Koselleck and Quentin Skinner as partly competing, partly converging approaches to conceptual history. He applies both Koselleck’s time-centred and Skinner’s rhetorical perspectives in his own studies on theorising politics. Simultaneously he emphasises the heuristic impulse of both approaches for the study of political practices, for the reorientation of parliamentary studies in particular.

»Kari Palonen strides with a clear and well-worked out Programme and methodology...rich and challenging book... Those who wish to acquire a more subtle appreciation of the political would do well to read Palonen closely. What he has to say should be extended beyond the confines of northern and central Europe, and the way he says it should be incorporated into the current vocabularies and arguments both of political theorists and conceptual historians.«
Prof. Dr. Michael Freeden, EJPT 11/2015

»Für Kenner von Palonens Monographien bietet die vorliegende Artikelsammlung weiterführende Interpretationsmöglichkeiten und Denkanstöße.«
Dr. Achim Saupe, sehepunkte 9/15

»Es ist angemessen, im ersten Band der neuen Schriftenreihe 'Politik - Debatten - Begriffe' einen Autor zu Wort zu bitten, der wie kaum [...]