Кари Палонен
Biographic Data
| ID | 3447908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Кари Палонен |
| GIVEN NAMES | Кари |
| FAMILY NAME | Палонен |
| SIGNATURE | ПАЛОНЕН К |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7274-1690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 107 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 107 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Debating Democracy: Concepts, Histories, and Controversies
Within academia as much as in political practice, democracy remains a contested concept. This issue focuses on the practices of the contestation of the concept of democracy—the debates, controversies, and contestations of democracy in theory, practice, and in historical perspectives. Special emphasis is put on the concept of liberal democracy—i.e, the form that democracy mostly takes nowadays. The key argument is that (liberal) democracy has alwa…
The European Parliament: On the Politics of Naming
In this article, I discuss the early history of the expression of the European Parliament and analyse the political points of its different rhetorical nuances and connotations. I shall use as the background a wider discussion on the politics of naming, indebted to the rhetorical work of Quentin Skinner as well as to the historical repertoire of alternative titles for parliamentary assemblies. The expression “European Parliament” had already been …
A classical study on parliamentary procedure. Conceptions of parliament in Josef Redlich’s Recht und Technik des Englischen Parlamentarismus (1905)
In this article I analyse the intellectual contribution of Josef Redlich’s Recht und Technik des Englischen Parlamentarismus, a classical study on the Westminster parliamentary procedure from 1905. Redlich presents the origins of the procedural literature and the revision of British parliamentary procedure in the second half of the nineteenth century, the extended post-reform parliamentary agenda as well as the Irish members’ obstruction campaign…
Playing Against Contingency: The Common Agenda of Four Different Studies
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The rhetoric of political science in parliament. A study of Westminster debates after the Second World War
A parliamentary perspective on the politics of the academic political science connects my former interest in the history of the discipline with parliamentary studies. This article continues the discussion in a previous article of mine on the German Bundestag. 1 The conceptual point lies in a mutual suspicion between parliamentarians and academics regarding politics. In this present study I analyse Westminster debates on the concept of 'political …
Political science in parliaments. Case studies on selected Western parliaments after the Second World War
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Max Weber on parliamentarism and democracy
Democracy and parliamentarism have different and partly opposed histories. In Britain parliamentary government preceded the democratisation of the suffrage, in Germany the Reichstag was elected with manhood suffrage but parliamentarism was suspicious. During the early years of the 20th century several attempts to parliamentarise the government were made, although the federal structure and the Prussian domination within it made them difficult. In …
Paradigms for Political Action. A Draft for a Repertoire
Whether politics is a separate sphere or an aspect of human action is a subject of academic controversy. I focus here on the political aspect of action, which is not exclusive of other aspects. There are no ‘naturally political’ issues nor is there anything completely devoid of a political aspect. I am now taking a step backwards to discuss the seemingly simple ‘political or not’ question, as compared to the ‘political in which sense’ question, w…
Speaking of politics in parliament: Experiences of writing a book on the digitized Bundestag debates, 1949–2017
This article consists of ex post methodological reflections on the procedures and practices that I applied in my monograph Politik als parlamentarischer Begriff: Perspektiven aus den Plenardebatten des Deutschen Bundestags (Leverkusen, 2021). The book analyses through 18 parliamentary terms the conceptualization of politics in German Bundestag plenary debates from 1949 to 2017. The book was an illustration of my long-term aim of combining politic…
"Conceptual Explorations around "Politics: Thematizing the Activity of Politics in the Plenary Debates of the German Bundestag
This article discusses the ways of conceptualizing politics in parliamentary debates. When the politics-vocabulary is ubiquitous in them, which kind of speech act lies in emphasizing the political aspect? Focusing on thematized uses allows us to identify conceptual revisions in the politics-vocabulary in digitalized plenary debates of the German Bundestag from 1949 to 2017. My fourfold scheme for conceptualizing politics (polity, policy, politici…
Political science as a topic in post-war German Bundestag debates
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…
Degrees of Acting Parliamentarily
Politics of Parliamentary Government
Thinking Parliamentary Politics as an Ideal Type
Parliamentary Actors as Politicians
The Supranational Dimension in Max Weber’s Vision of Politics
Max Weber analyzed politics from the perspective of Chancen for actors, and he never separated world politics from domestic politics. The “Westphalian balance” between great European powers shaped Weber’s views on international polity. However, he also regarded Western individualism, human rights, and parliamentary democracy as necessary qualities to possess in order to be recognized as a great power. This vision provided the basis for his wartim…
Parliamentary Procedure: Politics of Dissensus
Deliberative Rhetoric of Parliamentary Debate
Parliamentary Politics as an Activity
Parliamentary Time as a Medium of Politics
Chances for Parliamentary Politics Today
Herrschaft und Rhetorik bei Max Weber
Max Webers Interpretationen der Grundbegriffe wie Macht, Herrschaft und Staat sind heute akademische Gemeinplätze. Kari Palonen diskutiert, wann, wozu und wie Webers Konzepte entstanden sind und gegen welche Ansichten und Personen er damit polemisierte. Palonen analysiert, wie Weber die Kontingenz der Begriffe der öffentlichen und akademischen Sprache sichtbar machte und wie er mit dem Begriff der Chance ermöglichte, diese neu zu denken
Rhetoric of academic applications: Perspectives from Quentin Skinner’s Forensic Shakespeare
The tools of classical and Renaissance rhetoric that Quentin Skinner uses in his Forensic Shakespeare (2014) are here applied to a contemporary context. Skinner’s discussion might have a fairly direct value for a genre of writing that most academics today must master, namely the rhetoric of applications. They have been seldom discussed from a rhetorical perspective, although knowledge of rhetoric is highly valuable for applicants, evaluators and …
Rethinking Politicisation
Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something – an issue, an institution, a policy – that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion: Politicisation is a concept that is currently much used in the social sciences, and also a concept that is contes…
Four aspects of politics in Max Weber's Politik als Beruf
The article offers a rereading of Weber's Politik als Beruf as a conceptualisation of politics contingent and controversial activity in terms of the four aspects of politics: politicisation, polity, politicking and policy. Weber discusses politics as a concept abstracted from its content. All four aspects can be found in his exposition of the concept. Weber mentions first policy as the direction of politics and demarcates his focus on the state-t…
Four Times of Politics: Policy, Polity, Politicking, and Politicization
There is just one noun corresponding to the adjective political in French, German, Swedish, Finnish and so on, while the English language has three: policy, polity, and politics. Here, I shall take the tripartite division of the English polit-vocabulary as a point of departure for rethinking politics in a de-centering mode. The English vocabulary provides us with a glimpse into the linguistic possibilities for the formation of different perspecti…
The History of Concepts as a Style of Political Theorizing: Quentin Skinner's and Reinhart Koselleck's Subversion of Normative Political Theory
The history of concepts has partly replaced the older style of the `history of ideas' and can be extended to a critique of normative political theory and, thereby, understood as an indirect style of political theorizing. A common feature in Quentin Skinner's and Reinhart Koselleck's writings lies in their critique of the unhistorical and depoliticizing use of concepts. This concerns especially the classical contractarian theories, and both author…
Rethinking Politicisation
Politicisation, in a broad and basic understanding, means to turn something – an issue, an institution, a policy – that previously was not a subject to political action into something that now is subject to political action. So far, most definitions of the concept would agree. But besides this basic approach, there is much discussion: Politicisation is a concept that is currently much used in the social sciences, and also a concept that is contes…
Max Weber's Reconceptualization of Freedom
Etude de la conception de la liberte developpee par M. Weber en dehors de tout contexte singulier et en dehors du debat anglo-americain sur le liberalisme et le republicanisme. Soulignant la connexion entre liberte individuelle et action politique, Weber adopte une position non-orthodoxe par rapport au contractualisme et presente une analyse situationnelle qui cherche une alternative au processus de bureaucratisation. Mesurant le role des notions…
Das ‘Webersche Moment: Zur Kontingenz des Politischen
Parliamentary Thinking: Procedure, Rhetoric and Time
1. Parliamentary politics as an activity -- 2. Thinking parliamentary politics as an ideal type -- 3. Parliamentary procedure: politics of dissensus -- 4. Deliberative rhetoric of parliamentary debate -- 5. Politics of parliamentary government -- 6. Parliamentary actors as politicians -- 7. Parliamentary time as a medium of politics -- 8. Degrees of acting parliamentarily -- 9. Chances for parliamentary politics today
Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life
Quentin Skinner’s thesis ‘that political life itself sets the main problems for the political theorist’ marks a turning point in the study of the history of political thought. The Protestant princes who revised Luther’s doctrine of disobedience in order to save Lutheranism as a political force are the best example of this ‘Skinnerian revolution’ in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. This is in accordance with his claim that principles p…
Two Concepts of Politics: Conceptual History and Present Controversies
In contemporary debates we may distinguish a number of individual conceptions of politics, which, however, can be understood as versions of combinations of two and only two concepts of politics. I will call the two the sphere-concept and the activity-concept. Although they on most occasions are closely intertwined, they refer to two distinct concepts, both of which are regularly evoked but seldom clearly distinguished from each other either in th…
Politics or the Political? An Historical Perspective on a Contemporary Non-Debate
Conceptualisations of ‘the political’ and ‘politics’ tend to diverge quite significantly from one another in contemporary literature. The origins of this split can be traced back to the works of Carl Schmitt and Max Weber. By accentuating the opposition between these conceptions, we are able to detect two different attitudes toward politics. The Schmittian ideal of the political longs for stability that extends beyond the daily quarrels of politi…
"Objektivität" als faires Spiel
Was versteht Max Weber unter ‚Objektivität’ in seinem Aufsatz „Die ‚Objektivität’ sozialwissenschaftlicher und sozialpolitischer Erkenntnis“ von 1904? Welchen rhetorischen Schachzug unternimmt er mit seiner Umdeutung des Begriffs
Objectivity’ as Fair Play Max Weber’s Parliamentary Redescription of a Normative Concept
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Max Weber, Parliamentarism and the Rhetorical Culture of Politics
In this article the concept of parliamentarism is extended to the concept of ‘government by speaking’ (Macaulay 1857), to a political form of rhetorical culture based on arguing for and against. Weber’s relationship to parliamentarism is reassessed in this perspective. The first part deals with his ‘parliamentary theory of knowledge’, which refers to his view that the competition of perspectives is constitutive of the human sciences. In this sens…
The State as a 'Chance' Concept: Max Weber's de-substantialisation and neutralisation of the concept
The article asks in what ways the recent publication of Weber's last, interrupted lecture series from 1920 contributes to our understanding of his concept of the state? Whereas Gangolf Hübinger in his preface and editorial remarks of MWG III/7 thematizes the political, intellectual, disciplinary and university historical contexts of the lectures, I concentrate on Weber's break with the conventions in the German history of the concept of the state…
Quentin Skinner's rhetoric of conceptual change
Max Weber's Rhetoric of 'Objectivity: The Parliament as a Paradigm for Scholarly Disputes
In this essay, Max Weber's classical 1904 essay on 'Objectivity' is revisited from a rhetorical perspective. When Weber speaks of 'objectivity', he is referring to the Methodenstreit in the economics of his time from the broader viewpoint of discussing the modes of conducting scholarly disputes in general. He insists that the struggle between opposing standpoints and their supporters, which is widely accepted politics, should also be revalued in …
Imagining Max Weber's Reply to Hannah Arendt: Remarks on the Arendtian Critique of Representative Democracy
Introduction: Max Weber's Relevance as a Theorist of Politics
Logic or Rhetoric in the History of Political Thought? Comments on Mark Bevir
I want to question Mark Bevir's approach to the history of political thought from a perspective, 'Weberian' view of knowledge. Bevir's criticism of others are often inaccurate, and I exemplify this by analysing his misreading of Quentin Skinner as a 'conventionalist'. When Bevir, furthermore, identifies the history of ideas with the study of meanings, this is a traditional view which can, with Skinner, opposed by a rhetorical perspective of 'ling…
An Application of Conceptual History to Itself: From Method to Theory in Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschifte
Koselleck's BegriffsgeschifteW ith the exception of some studies of Melvin Richter, the history of the Koselleckian conceptual history has been hardly thematized.Reinhart Koselleck himself has, however, recently made an interesting comment on this, which legitimates a closer historical discussion of the changes in his programme.In his Reflections, published in 1994, he writes on the experiences around the publication of Geschichtliche Grundbegrif…
The European Parliament: On the Politics of Naming
In this article, I discuss the early history of the expression of the European Parliament and analyse the political points of its different rhetorical nuances and connotations. I shall use as the background a wider discussion on the politics of naming, indebted to the rhetorical work of Quentin Skinner as well as to the historical repertoire of alternative titles for parliamentary assemblies. The expression “European Parliament” had already been …
Four aspects of politics in Max Weber's Politik als Beruf
The article offers a rereading of Weber's Politik als Beruf as a conceptualisation of politics contingent and controversial activity in terms of the four aspects of politics: politicisation, polity, politicking and policy. Weber discusses politics as a concept abstracted from its content. All four aspects can be found in his exposition of the concept. Weber mentions first policy as the direction of politics and demarcates his focus on the state-t…
Submitting “Alternative Facts” to Debate: A Weberian Perspective on Post-truth Politics
Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as the “Word of the Year 2016”, while the association of German linguists (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache) did the same for “postfaktische Politik”. “Alternative facts”, launched by Kellyanne Conway concerning the attendance at Donald Trump’s inaugural, was a third variant in this cluster. In this article, I shall discuss Max Weber’s parliamentary perspective on the critique of given facts and of the powe…
A comparison between three ideal types of parliamentary politics: Representation, legislation and deliberation
Representative, legislative and deliberative assemblies are commonly called parliaments. The three types of assemblies share many procedures and practices, and the Inter-Parliamentary Union includes all three types among its members. Nonetheless, as ideal types in the Weberian sense, the three kinds of political assemblies do differ in their modes of acting and thinking politically. This article is a thought experiment to sketch the three ideal t…
Westminster procedures: Not mere games
The Politification and Politicisation of the EU
In this article, we suggest a novel conceptual framework for understanding and analysing EU politicisation. Recent studies on EU politicisation argue that the post-Maastricht era led to the politicisation of EU integration via an increasing citizens’ dissatisfaction. Contrary to this account, we argue that European integration has been from the beginning linked to politicisation, but in an unusual way. To capture its uniqueness we introduce the c…
The public realm & the public self. The political theory of Hannah Arendt
An Application of Conceptual History to Itself: From Method to Theory in Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschifte
Koselleck's BegriffsgeschifteW ith the exception of some studies of Melvin Richter, the history of the Koselleckian conceptual history has been hardly thematized.Reinhart Koselleck himself has, however, recently made an interesting comment on this, which legitimates a closer historical discussion of the changes in his programme.In his Reflections, published in 1994, he writes on the experiences around the publication of Geschichtliche Grundbegrif…
Quentin Skinner's rhetoric of conceptual change
Die Webersche Konzeptualisierung der Kontingenz
Max Weber spricht von der Kontingenz ganz beiläufig — mit Hinweis auf die scholastische Terminologie und als Synonym für ‘zufällig’ — in der Protestantischen Ethik (NWB, 130). Vom Zufälligen ist hier, wie anderswo, im teleologischen Sinn des ‘Unwesentlichen’ die Rede (vgl. Rischer, GAW, 5; Kritische Studien, GAW, 219–220).
Das Verschwinden der fortuna?
Sheldon S. Wolins originelle Übersicht über die Geschichte des politischen Denkens, Politics and vision (1960), enthält einen Passus, der auf die Verbindung zwischen der Bürokratisierung und der fortuna-Kontingenz bei Weber eingeht. Im Lenin-Abschnitt spricht Wolin über den ‘romantischen’ Protest gegen die Bürokratisierung bei “Nietzsche, Kierkegaard und Sorel”, denen auch Weber zugeordnet wird: Nowhere was the anguishing tension between the worl…
Zwischen Machiavelli und Weber
Die Mehrheit der akademischen Literatur zur politischen Theorie bezieht sich auf die zwischen Machiavelli und Weber liegende Zeit. Wenn ich diese Zeit nun mit zwei Bemerkungen zusammenfasse, dann betreibe ich natürlich keine Begriffsgeschichte, sondern bloß eine Klassifikation von Idealtypen mit Bezug auf die Einstellung zur Kontingenz. Pococks Formel von der Politik als Kunst der Kontingenzbehandlung muß in dieser Zeit eindeutig so gedeutet werd…
Die Kunst, Kontingenz zu behandeln
The Machiavellian moment heißt eine bekannte Arbeit von J.G.A. Pocock aus dem Jahr 1975. Diese — so Pocock — von Quentin Skinner vorgeschlagenen Titel hat zumindest Pierre Rosanvallon in Le moment Guizot (1985) nachgeahmt, und auch sonst hat die Rede von unterschiedlichen Momenten in neueren angelsächsischen Arbeiten zugenommen. Zur Bedeutung des Titels schreibt Pocock: The Machiavellian moment denotes the problem itself. It is a name for the mom…
Das Machiavellische Moment der Kontingenz
Die folgende Diskussion knüpft an die Diskussion und Formulierungen Pococks an. Hier interessiert nicht die umstrittene (s. z.B. Viroli 1992) historische Gültigkeit der Pocockschen Interpretation des Begriffs des Politischen. Wesentlich ist die Thematisierung der Kontingenz des Politischen im Zeichen des Begriffspaares fortuna-virtù, wozu Pocock zumindest einen Ausgangspunkt liefert.
Die Kontingenz der Existenz als Ausgangspunkt des Handelns
In diesem Kapitel wird das Verhältnis von Politik und Kontingenz bei einigen Autoren behandelt, die im ersten Jahrzehnt des 20. Jahrhunderts geboren wurden. Ihr Verständnis der Politik prägen die Phänomene des Krieges und der ‘totalitären’ Regime, also eine Erfahrung, die auch im folgenden Zitat von Albert Camus (1944), das von der Bedeutung des Kriegserlebnisses spricht, ausgedrückt wird: Les routines dont était tissée la vie politiqueavant 1940…
Die Kontingenz des Politischen bei Weber
Die Kritik am Unpolitischen und die Konzeptualisierung der Kontingenz eröffnen bei Max Weber eine neue Perspektive, die den Begriff des Politischen mit der Kontingenz verbindet. Wie dies getan wird, das ist das Thema dieses Kapitels.
Kontingenz als Voraussetzung des Politischen
In diesem Kapitel kehre ich zur Allgegenwart der Kontingenz zurück, und zwar explizit aus der Sicht der Diskussion des Politischen. Der Bezug zur Politik gehört zwar zur Rede von der Kontingenz, ein Umdenken des Politischen im Zeichen der Kontingenz ist jedoch marginal geblieben. Die Systemtheoretiker Niklas Luhmann (z.B. 1992, 1993) und Hellmut Willke (1992, 1993) feiern im Namen der Kontingenz sogar die Politikverdrossenheit, sie verbleiben jed…
Das Webersche Moment des Politischen
Worin liegt nun das Webersche Moment? Was ist neu daran? Wie ist es möglich geworden? Wie verhält es sich zur zeitgenössischen Diskussion um den Begriff des Politischen? Zu diesen Fragen wird in diesem Kapitel eine teils zusammenfassende, teils weiterführende Interpretation vorgestellt.
Politik als Doppelspiel der Kontingenzen
Das Webersche Moment auf der Grundlage der zu obigen Fragmente zusammenzufassen, ist problematisch: so verschieden sind die Fragestellungen und so individuell die Profile der behandelten Autoren in bezug auf die Kontingenz des Politischen. Insofern liefere ich, zusätzlich zu den Ausführungen in einzelnen Kapiteln, hier nur einige Stichworte, vor allem Stichworte über das Verhältnis Webers zur späteren Diskussion.
Im Schatten Webers: Die Grundlosigkeit der Politik
In diesem Kapitel wird nun die Kontingenz des Politischen in der deutschsprachigen Diskussion während der Weimarer Republik thematisiert. Die zeitgenössische Weber-Rezeption hat das Politische entweder in den Hintergrund verschoben oder es oberflächlich, zum Beispiel als bloße Aufzählung der idealen Eigenschaften des Politikers, gedeutet. Die Verbindung zwischen Webers Wissenschaftslehre und der historischen Situationsanalyse mit seinem Begriff d…
Vorbemerkung
Das ‘Webersche Moment nach Weber’ bezieht sich nicht auf die exegetische oder kritische Weber-Rezeption. Sicherlich haben alle hier auftretenden Autoren Max Weber als Namen und als Figur gekannt, und die meisten von ihnen haben sich auch, oft mehr als die Hinweise auf Webers Werk es andeuten, mit dessen Werk beschäftigt. Hier geht es um die Fortsetzung des We-berschen Themas in Hinsicht auf das Umdenken des Politischen im Zeichen der Kontingenz, …
Max Webers Kritik am Unpolitischen
Von seiner Jugend an war Max Weber ein leidenschaftlicher homo politicus. Die Kritik am Unpolitischen und das Fragen nach den Chancen der Politik durchzieht sein Werk. Obwohl man bei Weber durchaus Stellen findet, in denen er sich thematisch von der ‘Politik’ respektive von der ‘Politisierung’ abgrenzt, kann man bei ihm nirgends eine Verteidigung des Unpolitischen, Apolitischen oder Antipolitischen finden — mehrfach und in unterschiedlichen Forme…
Judging Politics - A Temporal Perspective
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Liberty Is Too Precious a Concept to Be Left to the Liberals
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Das ‘Webersche Moment: Zur Kontingenz des Politischen
Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives on Conceptual Change
Theses on Quentin Skinner and Reinhart Koselleck
Contingency in Political Theory
Max Weber's Reconceptualization of Freedom
Etude de la conception de la liberte developpee par M. Weber en dehors de tout contexte singulier et en dehors du debat anglo-americain sur le liberalisme et le republicanisme. Soulignant la connexion entre liberte individuelle et action politique, Weber adopte une position non-orthodoxe par rapport au contractualisme et presente une analyse situationnelle qui cherche une alternative au processus de bureaucratisation. Mesurant le role des notions…
The Latest Return of Sartre
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Conceptual History as Political Theory
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Logic or Rhetoric in the History of Political Thought? Comments on Mark Bevir
I want to question Mark Bevir's approach to the history of political thought from a perspective, 'Weberian' view of knowledge. Bevir's criticism of others are often inaccurate, and I exemplify this by analysing his misreading of Quentin Skinner as a 'conventionalist'. When Bevir, furthermore, identifies the history of ideas with the study of meanings, this is a traditional view which can, with Skinner, opposed by a rhetorical perspective of 'ling…
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