Metaphors and the Dynamics of Knowledge

Informationen zum Autor Maasen, Sabine; Weingart, Peter Klappentext 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. It is of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Sabine Maasen, Maasen Sabine, Peter Weingart, Weingart Peter
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2000
• EAN: 9780415208024
• ISBN: 978-0-415-20802-4
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought; Routledge Studies in Social an; Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Society & culture: general, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural anthropology, Society and culture: general, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc