Search results for "politiikantutkimus"
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Political science as a topic in post-war German Bundestag debates
2020
The conceptual history of politics in post-WWII (West-) Germany is connected to the history of academic political science. From the Bundestag plenary debates (beginning in September 1949) both the controversies on the political science itself and the contributors of both contemporary scholars and the ‘classics’ of the understanding of politics can be studied. The digitalisation of parliamentary debates opens up new chances for conceptual research in this regard. The article studies the conceptual commitments in the use of the discipline titles (Politikwissenschaft, Politische Wissenschaft, Politologie, Politikforschung, Politische Theorie, also political science) and actors (Politologe, Pol…
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?
2023
Thomas Hobbes's name often comes up as scholars debate the history of biopower, which regulates the biological life of individual bodies and entire populations. This article examines whether and to what extent Hobbes may be regarded as the first biopolitical philosopher. I investigate this question by performing a close reading of Hobbes's political texts and by comparing them to some of the most influential theories on biopolitics proposed by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and others. Hobbes is indeed the first great thinker to assert the supreme political importance of safeguarding life. Furthermore, this prominence of non-contemplative life is not limited to mere su…
Vai pelkkää retoriikkaa? 11, Uusia kaikuja, välähdyksiä ja heijastuksia : poimintoja poliittisen ajattelun ja kielen muutoksista
2009
The global politics of celebrity humanitarianism
2014
Storylines : politics, history and narrative from an Arendtian perspective
2001
Kansallisvaltion kielioppi
1998
Politiikasta-raati: Kansainvälisten suhteiden tutkimuksen sokeat pisteet
2022
Akateeminen tutkimus suosii tiettyjä suuntauksia ja painotuksia. Samalla määritellään sitä, millainen tutkimus on tärkeää ja huomionarvoista – ja myös sitä, mikä ei ole. Neljä kansainvälisten suhteiden tutkijaa kertoo, mitkä ovat alan sokeita pisteitä. nonPeerReviewed