Schriften zur politischen Kommunikation.

English summary: This volume is concerned with the communicative processes in which binding norms for social systems are negotiated. The authors examine the intentions, content and contexts of political statements from the whole political spectrum, as well as the actors involved. The statements testify to the questioning of existing orders, the need to form a consensus, the articulation of resistance and conflict, the assertion of binding norms and values, and even the shaping of political spaces. The time-frame of the study extends from antiquity to the 20th century; in the various contributions, language is not seen as a free, intentional act, but always as a function of historical, intellectual and social circumstances. German text. German description: Gegenstand dieses Bandes sind kommunikative Prozesse, durch die fur soziale Systeme verbindliche Normen verhandelt werden. Untersucht werden politische Ausserungen, die in unterschiedlicher Relation zu den Herrschaftssystemen stehen, auf ihre Intentionen, Inhalte und Kontexte ebenso wie auf die involvierten AkteurInnen. Die untersuchten Ausserungen zeugen von der Infragestellung bestehender Ordnungen, vom Bedurfnis, Konsens zu bilden, von der Artikulation von Widerstand und Konflikt, von der Durchsetzung verbindlicher Normen und Werte bis hin zur Gestaltung politischer Raume. Der Untersuchungsrahmen reicht von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert; die Sprache wird in den Beitragen nicht als freie, intentionale Handlung, sondern stets als historisch, geistig und sozial bedingt gesehen.

This volume is concerned with the positions taken in the present debate over a new history of politics, or a cultural history of political thought. The European position toward that debate emphasizes the usefulness of bringing the discussion to an international forum, since it is not the replacing of one research approach by another, but rather the complementing of existing research methods by those stemming from historical semantics which has proved to be feasible and open to new research questions. The contributions in this volume treat the issue both from the vantage point of early modern oppositional discourses as well as of the early history of nobility. They concentrate on the role of rituals in the history of the Middle Ages and in modern historical treatments. This is the first volume of a series from the International Graduate College entitled Political Communication from Antiquity to the 20th Century . This text is in German.