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DESCRIPTION:Political metaphors are widely studied empirically as parts of
  the broader metaphor debate and characterized inductively. Yet their ess
 ence remains undertheorized and\, consequently\, the methods of reading t
 hem underdeveloped.\n\nThis talk builds on my on-going theoretical and me
 thodological research on political metaphors. What\, exactly\, makes some
 thing a powerful political metaphor\, I ask\, dividing the question into 
 three. First\, relying on modern metaphor theory\, I characterize metapho
 r’s essential features: more than superficial rhetoric but less than ubiq
 uitous cognition\, metaphors are an active interpretation process and a f
 orm of argumentation alongside others. Second\, I discuss what makes some
  metaphors powerful\, including their ability to elicit emotions\, filter
  out other options\, utilize contextual knowledge\, and imply more than t
 hey say – all of which are useful functions in politics.\nPowerful metaph
 ors are often tension-ridden and provocative yet rely on conventional dis
 cursive features for support\; however\, more subtle metaphorical assimil
 ations\, too\, can be equally effective. Third\, building on perspectives
  from contemporary political theory\, I tackle the difficult question of 
 what\, exactly\, makes political metaphors political – a question\, perpl
 exingly\, neglected in previous research. Scholars typically push politic
 ality backward into self-evidently “political” issues\, institutions\, or
  subjects\, which begs the question.\nI\, by contrast\, argue for a use-b
 ased account: political metaphors are metaphors used in specifically poli
 tical ways so that they resonate with “the political.” These uses include
  e.g. distributing significance\, urgency\, and priority\; mobilizing/wit
 hholding support by accepting/ rejecting matters normatively\; contesting
 /decontesting matters and regulating the borderline of what is political\
 ; including/excluding groups into/from the domain of legitimate political
  subjects\; and preparing/suppressing future-oriented claims. Throughout\
 , I exemplify the argument by discussing a powerful metaphorical utteranc
 e presented in the trial against the German Communist Party in 1955 – one
  that described the communists as a dangerous “center of infection” in th
 e “body” of the Federal Republic.\n\n[b]About Timo Pankakoski[/b]\nTimo P
 ankakoski is a Collegium Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studi
 es\, University of Turku\, Finland\, where he develops better methods for
  reading political metaphors. After his doctorate (Helsinki\, 2013)\, he 
 has obtained the Title of Docent (Assistant Professor) in Political Scien
 ce\, worked three times as a University Lecturer of Political Science or 
 European Studies\, and held visiting positions in Princeton University an
 d Queen Mary University of London. Pankakoski works mostly on political t
 heory\, history of political thought\, German intellectual history\, radi
 cal conservatism\, political metaphors\, conceptual history\, and the met
 hodology of intellectual history. His latest publications have discussed 
 the relationship between war and politics in Ernst Jünger’s early work ([
 i]New German Critique[/i]\, forthcoming)\, the leading concepts of post-p
 andemic recovery in Europe ([i]Redescriptions\, [/i]forthcoming)\, Dolf S
 ternberger’s metaphorical argumentation against proportional voting ([i]M
 odern Intellectual History[/i]\, 2023)\, the fragmentation of law ([i]Enc
 yclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy\, [/i]2023)\, th
 e conservative and revolutionary aspects of the “conservative revolution”
  ([i]Frontiers in Political Science[/i]\, 2022)\, and anti-English sentim
 ents in WWI-era pamphlets and antidemocratic discourse in Germany ([i]Jou
 rnal of the History of Ideas[/i]\, 2021).\n\nThe event is open for all an
 d takes place in the DIAS Seminar Room (V24-412a-0).\n\nIntroduction: Jep
 pe Nevers[nl]\nLecture: Timo Pankakoski[nl]\nCommentator: Aglae Pizzone[n
 l]
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SUMMARY:Powerful Political Metaphors: How Are They Created?
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