This book analyses the use of the term “politics” in the plenary debates of the German Bundestag from 1947 to 2017. How do parliamentarians address and problematise the concept of politics? What conclusions can be drawn from this for the history of the term, rhetoric and political theory? The study is based on the digitised parliamentary debates, which offer new opportunities to analyse the use of terms from the perspective of parliamentarians as moves in debates.weiterlesen