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Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. Drawing on Immanuel Kant's and Hannah Arendt's ideas about reflective judgment, Lara argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Particular stories haunt our

Abstract
One would suspect that someone who was so interested on conceptual coinage, would be less interested on that which cannot be translated. Actually, both dimensions are so interconnected that, it is only because of learning about how to coin concepts, that we are able to understand how much is left out from the concept, and how, if it possesses some sort of ambiguity, we may need other tools such as metaphors, which allow more space for the untranslatable. Ambiguity is their main feature. Thanks to Hans Blumenberg's work, we can actually learn to understand what is left in between metaphors, and in the process of how some of them can turn them into concepts, while others remain forever as metaphors. In the historical spaces of the before and the after, and only by acknowledging that the pre-conceptual lays in our lifesworld (Lebenswelt), and which is also the frame for these untraceable dimensions. We can say that there is only an indirect way to approach these spaces and how we can work them is through the connection between language and history. Explaining this specific dynamic is the subject of this paper.

In this paper I want to leave behind the failed attempts to think about populism as ideology, strategy, style, or even discourse. I will focus on the 'conceptual battles of politics' and their potential to influence actors to pursue and effect specific ends. Reinhart Koselleck and his ideas about conceptual history will figure prominently in my discussion, as will his concept of asymmetrical combat-concept as a means of unleashing a theoretical and political war. The goal is to demonstrate that concepts have taken the place of weapons of war among political actors.