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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| 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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Abstract:
"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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