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RESEARCH PRODUCT

REHABILITATING THE POLITICIAN ON A NEGLECTED GENRE IN POLITICAL THEORIZING

Kari Palonen

subject

PoliticsSociology and Political SciencebiologyRhetorical questionMillerPoint of departureSociologySocial scienceConceptual changebiology.organism_classificationEpistemology

description

The relatively rare defences of politicians, responding to commonplace denounciations, form a neglected genre of political theorizing. Max Weber's famous ‘Politik als Beruf’ (1919) serves here as a point of departure for the analysis of the examples of Louis Barthou, F.C. Oliver, J.D.B. Miller and Jean-Paul Sartre. The rehabilitation signifies a conceptual change through rhetorical redescription, as suggested by Quentin Skinner.

https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003975602001054