Politiikan tutkimuksesta kielitieteenä: Johdatus poliittisen tekstintulkinnan perusteisiin

Authors

• Kari Palonen

Abstract

The paper discusses the constitutive significance of language for politics and vice versa. Both are seen as aspects of human action. The philosophical commitments of a language are constitutive for politics as a special kind of constitution. Politics as action presupposes language as a condition for the formation of a policy. On this basis the language gives a key for studying politics as a kind of »text-hermeneutic science», whose special hermeneutics differs, however, from other disciplines. * 1