TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Scholl, Stefan
T1  - Politik als Krankheit. Organisch-medizinische Metaphern im Grenzziehungsdiskurs zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert
JF  - Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
N2  - The article investigates the ways in which organic-medical metaphors were used to set the boundary of discourse between the economy and politics. The successful establishment of organic-medical metaphors for the economy is mainly explained by their connectivity to different political views. Concepts such as ‘Wirtschaftsleben’ or perceptions of the economy as an ‘organism’ laid the foundation for diagnosing sick or healthy conditions. From the end of the 19th to beyond the mid-20th century typical statements illustrate that the use of such metaphors supported the naturalization and stabilization of the boundary-setting discourse, insofar as it seemed natural that the relation between the two spheres should be formulated in terms of health and disease. Within liberal economic discourse in particular, politics was on the one hand targeted as a potential cause for economic disease, while on the other, it was claimed that politics had the task of keeping economic forces healthy.
KW  - Diskursanalyse
KW  - Metapher
KW  - Politische Ökonomie
KW  - Politik
KW  - Wirtschaft
Y1  - 2016
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-74334
SN  - 2196-6842
SS  - 2196-6842
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2016-0016
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2016-0016
VL  - 57
IS  - 2
SP  - 367
EP  - 395
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin (u.a.)
ER  -