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Learning goals:
- to comprehend the nature of concepts and metaphors as elaborated in conceptual history, conceptual analysis and metaphor theory
- learn to identify key concepts and metaphors in a given material and analyze them soundly on the basis of the above approaches
- detect possible implications, intentions, and interests behind the use of political concepts and metaphors
- identify overlap with other approaches in the social sciences and humanities
- apply the perspectives to one's own research questions and make well-justified methodological choices