Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

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ISBN: 9780415208024 | 0415208025
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/5/2001

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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.

List of figures and tables

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

Foreword

Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge: preliminary thoughts

(150)

Analysing knowledge dynamics, in general, and the role of metaphors, in particular

(17)

Observing the dynamics of `ideas' in society

(9)

Changing the observatory: a systems-theoretical and discourse-analytical approach

(8)

Metaphors as targets and tools in the analysis of knowledge dynamics

(17)

Troubling terms

(4)

Metaphor analysis from `above', from `below', and from `in between'

(9)

Metaphor analyses of knowledge dynamics

(4)

`Struggle for existence': selection, retention and extinction of a metaphor

(22)

Vignette

(1)

Functions and dysfunctions of metaphors in science

(2)

Kampf ums Dasein - popularization and contexts of usage

(9)

A change of context: Weismann and the Krupp competition

(4)

The metadiscourse on `struggle for existence'

(6)

Of paradigms, shifts, and changes - the Kuhnian metaphor

(28)

Vignette

(1)

Thomas Kuhn's Structure - `The right text at the right time'

(4)

The `Kuhnianization' of the social sciences

(7)

Paving the way for postmodernism - the Kuhnian metaphor at work

(12)

Kuhn, bartenders, theologians, and ice-cream parlours

(4)

The order of meaning: the career of chaos as a metaphor

(43)

Vignette

(1)

Introduction

(3)

The career of chaos as a metaphor

(10)

Chaos in contemporary social science discourses

105

(22)

Metaphor transfer - discursive order out of/within chaos?

127

(7)

Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge

134

(17)

Struggle, Kuhn, and chaos: changing metaphors denoting change

135

(3)

Struggle, Kuhn, and chaos: how metaphors create something new

138

(5)

Dynamics of knowledge: from memes to metaphors

143

(8)

Notes

151

(10)

References

161

(16)

Author index

177

(4)

Subject index

181

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Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

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