Metaphor and the Dynamics of KnowledgeThis 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. |
Contents
Metaphors as targets and tools in the analysis of knowledge dynamics | |
selection retention and extinction of a metaphor | |
Of paradigms shifts and changes the Kuhnian metaphor | |
the career of chaos as a metaphor | |
Chaos in contemporary social science discourses | |
Metaphor transfer discursive order out ofwithin chaos? | |
Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge | |
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