Beschreibung
The author presents in this volume a synthesis of his long-term studies on
the conceptual history of politics. He offers a rhetorical history of the
horizons of conceptualizing politics an activity in terms of nine
topoi: irregularity, judgment, policy, deliberation, commitment,
contestation, possibility, situation and play & game. He both constructs a
schema for conceptualization of the spectrum of activities that are called
politics and applies it to British, French and German debates on the
concept since the nineteenth century.
A New Preface deals with current studies around the concept of `politics‘ and refers
to the possibility of studying its conceptual history through parliamentary debates.
Kari Palonen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
