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Metaphors and the Dynamics of Knowledge

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This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge and will therefore be of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike.

Author(s): Sabine Maasen, Peter Weingart
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001

Language: English
Pages: 208

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures and tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Foreword......Page 10
Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge: preliminary thoughts......Page 12
Analysing knowledge dynamics, in general, and the role of metaphors, in particular......Page 18
Metaphors as targets and tools in the analysis of knowledge dynamics......Page 35
'Struggle for existence': selection, retention and extinction of a metaphor......Page 52
Of paradigms, shifts, and changes;the Kuhnian metaphor......Page 74
The order of meaning: the career of chaos as a metaphor......Page 102
Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge......Page 145
Notes......Page 162
References......Page 172
Author index......Page 188
Subject index......Page 192