Rhetoric and Bricolage in European Politics and Beyond - The Political Mind in Action

This book seeks to develop Rhetoric as a field of knowledge in an important new direction, European Union politics. The authors analyse what could be called a “European style of politics”: textual strategies and rhetorical styles evolving within and around the EU’s supranational and national institutions. By fusing rhetorical and sociological approaches, political thought and culture, the book contributes to the analysis of the ‘political’ as a way of thinking and judging the political aspect of any phenomena. 

Niilo Kauppi is Research Professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Strasbourg, France.

Kari Palonen is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Contents

1. Introduction 
Niilo Kauppi and Kari Palonen

2. The Political Bricolage of EU Theories 
Niilo Kauppi

3. National Politics and Transnational Feminisms in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: Perspectives from the Francophone Sphere 
Anne Epstein

4. Saving European Democracy: British Debates on European Unification in 1948–49 
Taru Haapala

5. Between Conceptual Innovation and ‘There is no Alternative’: Conceptual Politics and the Building of the EU as a Polity
Claudia Wiesner

6. The Colonialism of Partisanship: Politics of National Interest and the National Science Foundation in the U.S. Congressional Debates
Anna Kronlund

7. Mapping Postmodern Patterns of Political Agency and Rhetoric: Established Politics Facing Bricolage
Kim Zilliacus

8. Politics at Distance: Parliamentary Politics in the Face of New Challenges
Kari Palonen