ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of relationships between narrative and metaphor in the political context, in which examples may be found to illustrate the validity of all three claims. It also explain evident that work on narrative and metaphor in politics has been undertaken from a range of disciplinary perspectives and on a range of specific areas and topics, by political philosophers anthropologists, international relations specialists, linguists, communication scholars, feminist commentators, policy specialists, and political psychologists. The aim of the Warring with Words project is to bring this diverse array of scholars into conversation with each other, face-to-face conversation in the context of the Claremont symposium, and a virtual conversation in the context. The book focuses on some of the explanatory narratives and conceptual metaphors employed by scholars and commentators for interpreting and theorizing about domestic and international politics.
