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Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge
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Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge

Author: Sabine Maasen; Peter Weingart
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series: Routledge studies in social and political thought, 26.
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"A striking characteristic of modern knowledge society is the rapid spread of certain ideas and concepts back and forth from everyday to scientific discourses, and across many different contexts of meaning. This book opens up a new road to the sudy of these 'dynamics of knowledge'." "Sociologists of knowledge and recently evolutionary theorists have offered explanations that either attribute social attention to  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sabine Maasen; Peter Weingart
ISBN: 0415208025 9780415208024
OCLC Number: 44162448
Description: vi, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge: preliminary thoughts --
1. Analysing knowledge dynamics, in general, and the role of metaphors, in particular --
2. Metaphors as targets and tools in the analysis of knowledge dynamics --
3. 'Struggle for existence': selection, retention and extinction of a metaphor --
4. Of paradigms, shifts, and changes --
the Kuhnian metaphor --
5. The order of meaning: the career of chaos as a metaphor --
6. Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge.
Series Title: Routledge studies in social and political thought, 26.
Responsibility: Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart.
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"A striking characteristic of modern knowledge society is the rapid spread of certain ideas and concepts back and forth from everyday to scientific discourses, and across many different contexts of meaning. This book opens up a new road to the sudy of these 'dynamics of knowledge'." "Sociologists of knowledge and recently evolutionary theorists have offered explanations that either attribute social attention to particular ideas or shifts of meaning to the predominance of certain groups. Maasen and Weingart, however, offer a radical new explanation that explains knowledge dynamics by reference to the interaction between metaphors and discourses."--BOOK JACKET.

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