This book is the first comprehensive exposition of the work of oneof the most important intellectual historians and politicaltheorists writing today.Quentin Skinner's treatment of political theory as a dimension ofpolitical life marks a revolutionary move in the historical as wellas the philosophical study of political thought. Skinner brings thestudy of political theory closer to the language of agents andtreats theorists as politicians of a special kind. This is as trueof his accounts of his contemporaries, such as Rawls, Rorty, Geertzand Habermas, as it is of his interpretations of classical thinkerssuch as Machiavelli and Hobbes. Skinner has become internationallyrenowned for this approach, which ties together historical andcontemporary analysis in order to integrate the study of the pastand the present, and which tries fully to uncover the historicalcontext and development of key concepts in political theory such asfreedom and the state.This volume charts Skinner's work from the early 1960s right up tothe present, including his most recent studies in the theory ofpersuasive speech, and is organized around five major themes:history, linguistic action, political thought, liberty andrhetoric. It pays particular attention to Skinner's work inrelation to that of continental thinkers, especially Max Weber andReinhart Koselleck.The book will be essential reading for students and scholars ofpolitical and social theory, history, philosophy and culturalstudies.

Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

Politics & Social Sciences

Palonen, Kari

Philosophy

Polity

This book is the first comprehensive exposition of the work of one of the most important intellectual historians and political theorists writing today. 
Quentin Skinner's treatment of political theory as a dimension of political life marks a revolutionary move in the historical as well as the philosophical study of political thought. Skinner brings the study of political theory closer to the language of agents and treats theorists as politicians of a special kind. This is as true of his accounts of his contemporaries, such as Rawls, Rorty, Geertz and Habermas, as it is of his interpretations of classical thinkers such as Machiavelli and Hobbes. Skinner has become internationally renowned for this approach, which ties together historical and contemporary analysis in order to integrate the study of the past and the present, and which tries fully to uncover the historical context and development of key concepts in political theory such as freedom and the state. This volume charts Skinner's work from the early 1960s right up to the present, including his most recent studies in the theory of persuasive speech, and is organized around five major themes: history, linguistic action, political thought, liberty and rhetoric. It pays particular attention to Skinner's work in relation to that of continental thinkers, especially Max Weber and Reinhart Koselleck. The book will be essential reading for students and scholars of political and social theory, history, philosophy and cultural studies.

Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood, interpreted and analysed as political action. It offers the reader both a theoretical introduction and practical guidance. The authors deploy the perspective that debates are to be understood as political activity, and documents can be regarded as frozen debates. The first chapter discusses what is to be understood as politics and political. The second chapter explains the concept of debate as an exchange of arguments in speaking pro and contra. The third chapter presents concrete approaches, research practices and experiences that help analysing debates and documents as politics. The fourth chapter consists of a number of case studies that demonstrate how researchers can proceed in analysing parliamentary debates, documents, laws, and media articles. This book will be of use to all students and scholars interested in analysing texts and documents, as well as in political rhetoric and parliamentary debates. &nbsp;

Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action: Practices of Textual Interpretation and Analysis (Rhetoric, Politics and Society)

Wiesner, Claudia

Haapala, Taru

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The 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.

Politics and Conceptual Histories: Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives (Politics-Debates-Concepts)

Politics & Government

Nomos/Bloomsbury

A Political Style of Thinking (Essays)

Sociology

ECPR Press

Max Weber studies have been radically transformed since the 1980s. The author continues this revision by reading Weber as a thoroughly political thinker. Weber's key concept is Chance, a concept that allows us to study politics as contingent activity and to understand both the actions of politicians and the presence of the political aspect in research. This collection contains essays from 1999 to 2014 and a new introduction. The first part deals with Weber's concept of politics and the politician as an ideal type, the second discusses Weber's reinterpretations of key political concepts of freedom, democracy, parliament, nation and the state. The third part links Weber's concept of ‘objectivity' with the parliamentary style of politics. The essays set Weber's political thought in relationship to his predecessors (Constant, Bagehot, Nietzsche), contemporaries (Sombart, Schmitt, Benjamin), later (Arendt, Sartre) or contemporary scholars (Skinner, Koselleck) and current Weber studies (Hennis, Scaff, Ghosh).

A Political Style of Thinking

The parliamentary style of politics has been formed over centuries; nobody theorised it in advance. This book presents a thought experiment to spell out key principles of the parliamentary ideal type of politics. Max Weber offers the main intellectual inspiration, Westminster parliament provides the main historical reference and the author’s studies on parliamentary procedure and rhetoric provide the background for the book. Parliamentary acting and thinking offer us the best example of politics as a contingent and controversial activity. Using a parliamentary imagination, the author constructs the ideal type in five main chapters: dissensual modes of proceeding; rhetoric of parliamentary debate; parliamentary formation and control of government; parliamentarians as politicians; and parliamentary time as their common subtext. In the last two chapters, the book outlines the possibilities of extending parliamentary judgment to politics beyond parliaments proper and the chances for parliamentary politics succeeding today.

Parliamentary Thinking: Procedure, Rhetoric and Time (Rhetoric, Politics and Society)

Kari Palonen 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. Palonen 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 Struggle with Time: A Conceptual History of "Politics" as an Activity (Politische Theorie)

LIT Verlag

Currently, parliament as a political institution does not enjoy the best reputation. This book aims to recover less known political resources of the parliamentary mode of proceeding. The parliamentary procedure relies on regulating debates in a fair way and on constructing opposed perspectives on the agenda items.

The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure: The Formation of the Westminster Procedure as a Parliamentary Ideal Type

Legal Theory & Systems

Verlag Barbara Budrich

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Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action: Practices of Textual Interpretation and Analysis (Rhetoric, Politics and Society)

Politics and Conceptual Histories: Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives (Politics-Debates-Concepts)

A Political Style of Thinking (Essays)

A Political Style of Thinking

Parliamentary Thinking: Procedure, Rhetoric and Time (Rhetoric, Politics and Society)

Parliamentary Thinking: Procedure, Rhetoric and Time (Rhetoric, Politics and Society)

A Struggle with Time: A Conceptual History of "Politics" as an Activity (Politische Theorie)

The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure: The Formation of the Westminster Procedure as a Parliamentary Ideal Type