Timo Pankakoski
Lic.Soc.Sc., doctoral candidate
Department of Political and Economic Studies
Discipline of Political Science
Network for European Studies
P.O. Box 17 (Arkadiankatu 7)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi
+358919128820
 
I am a researcher and a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political and Economic Studies (discipline of political science), University of Helsinki. Currently I am working on my Ph. D. on conflict and politics in German political thought.
 
Fields of study: political theory, history of ideas, conceptual history, metaphor theory, literature; in particular twentieth-century German political thought.
 
 
Peer-reviewed publications

- "Carl Schmitt against the 'intermediate state': International and Domestic Variants", forthcoming in History of European Ideas, available online July 30, 2011.
 
- "Conflict, Context, Concreteness: Koselleck and Schmitt on Concepts", Political Theory, 38:6, 2010, 749-779.
 
- "Politiikka taisteluna. Max Weberin kolminkertainen Kampf" ["Politics as Battle: Max Weber's Triple Kampf"], Tiede & Edistys, 2/2008, 111-125.
 
- "Absurdista utopiaan. Satiirin lähikäsitteitä" ["From Absurd to Utopia: Satire and Related Concepts"], in Sari Kivistö (ed.): Satiiri. Johdatus lajin historiaan ja teoriaan, Yliopistopaino, Helsinki, 2007 (reprint 2010), 234-243.
 
 
Other publications
 
- "A Double Sense of Haste", Arkadia Gazette, 1, 2012, 8-9.
 
- "Kuinka käsitteistä vieraannutaan: Poliittisia reunamerkintöjä Helvi Hämäläiseen" ["How to Alienate from Concepts: Political Marginalia on Helvi Hämäläinen"], Nuori Voima, 6/2010, 48-50.
 
- "Modernin laboratorio vai aatteiden pidot? Huomioita Weimarin tasavallasta" ["Laboratory of Modernity or Feast of Ideas: Notes on the Weimar Republic"], Nuori Voima, 5/2010, 54-57.
 
- "Ajatus kasvaa kertautumalla" ["Thought Grows by Iteration"], review of At the Same Time by Susan Sontag, Nuori Voima, 4-5/2009, 85-87.
 
 - "Materiaalitaistelun melskeessä" ["In the Tumult of Material Battle"] review of Teräsmyrskyssä, the finnish translation of In Stahlgewittern by Ernst Jünger, kiiltomato.net, September 2008.
 
 - "Epäihmiset suviyössä" ["Nonhumans in the Summer Night"], review of the novels Säädyllinen murhenäytelmä and Kadotettu puutarha by Helvi Hämäläinen, kiiltomato.net, August 2007.
 
 - "Konfliktien toive elää poliittisessa kielessä" ["The Wish for Conflict Lives in Political Language"], editorial, Helsingin Sanomat, July 9, 2007, A2.
 
 - "Aatteiden aava ja avohakkuu" ["Open Sea of Ideas and Ideological Clear Cutting"], review of Mies vailla ominaisuuksia, the finnish translation of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften by Robert Musil, kiiltomato.net, August 2006.
 
 
Theses
 
 "Politiikan taistelumetaforiikka Max Weberin politiikan teoriassa" ["Struggle Metaphors of Politics in Max Weber's Political Thought"], Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, 169 pages (master's thesis 2006, licentiate's thesis  2007).
 

 
 

 

 
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