Introduction: Politics and Politicisation as Action
摘要
The concept of politics has been my major research interest since the 1980s. The Struggle with Time. A Conceptual History of ‘Politics’ as an Activity (Palonen 2006/2014) is a synthetising monograph including German, French and English debates around politics. As a complement Kia Lindroos edited my articles in Re-thinking Politics. Essays from a quarter-century (Palonen 2007). I returned to the topic by linking conceptual historyConceptual history to parliamentary proceduresParliamentary procedure/rules and rhetoricRhetoric in the monograph Politik als parlamentarischer Begriff (Palonen 2021), in which I analysed the ways of speaking of politics in the German Bundestag debates.