TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maasen,Sabine
AU  - Weingart,Peter
TI  - Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge
T2  - Routledge studies in social and political thought
SN  - 020325466X
AV  - B840 .M23 2000eb
U1  - 306.4/2 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Semantics (Philosophy)
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Sémantique (Philosophie)
KW  - Métaphore
KW  - metaphor
KW  - aat
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - cct
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-176) and indexes; Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge: preliminary thoughts; Analysing knowledge dynamics, in general, and the role of metaphors, in particular; Metaphors as targets and tools in the analysis of knowledge dynamics; 'Struggle for existence': selection, retention and extinction of a metaphor; Of paradigms, shifts, and changes; the Kuhnian metaphor; The order of meaning: the career of chaos as a metaphor; Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index
N2  - 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
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