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Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
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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 study 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 explores knowledge dynamics by reference to the interaction between metaphors and discourses.
The study focuses on three major case studies:
* the spread of Darwin's phrase 'struggle for existence' in the popularizing literature in turn of the century Germany
* the reception of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution and its identification with the term 'paradigm' in the sciences and humanities
* the diffusion of the concept of 'chaos' from scientific to everyday discourses
In its innovative theoretical approach and rich empirical analysis this book will be of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike.
Routledge; December 2000
196 pages; ISBN 9780203459980
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196 pages; ISBN 9780203459980
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Subject categories
- Academic > Philosophy > By period, Including individual philosophers and schools of philosophy > Modern > Special topics and schools of philosophy
- Academic > Philosophy > General works
- Philosophy > Logic
- Psychology & Psychiatry > Cognitive Psychology
- Social Science > Popular Culture
- Social Science > Anthropology
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Linguistics
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Semantics
- Political Science
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9781134620319
9781134620302
9780415208024
9780203459980
0203459989

