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Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in social and political thought ;
26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.