Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-0251-9 (ISBN)
Introduction: Metaphors: Is There a Bridge over Troubled Waters?.- I: Metaphors Revalued.- Who is Afraid of Metaphors?.- How Nature Became the Other: Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern Natural Philosophy.- The Manifest and the Scientific.- The Nexus of Animal and Rational: Sociobiology, Language, and the Enlightenment Study of Apes.- II: “Struggle”.- Social Metaphors in Evolutionary Biology, 1870–1930: The Wider Dimension of Social Darwinism.- “Struggle for Existence”: Selection and Retention of a Metaphor.- III: “Evolution” and “Organism”.- The Importance of the Concepts of “Organism” and “Evolution” in Emile Durkheim’s Division of Social Labor and the Influence of Herbert Spencer.- Herbert Spencer: Biology, Sociology, and Cosmic Evolution.- The Superorganism Metaphor: Then and Now.- Defining the Organism in the Welfare State: The Politics of Individuality in American Culture, 1890–1950.- IV: Economics.- A Plague Upon Your House: Commercial Crisis and Epidemic Disease in Victorian England.- Evolutionary Metaphors in Explanations of American Industrial Competition.- Biological and Physical Metaphors in Economics.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2001 |
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Reihe/Serie | Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook ; 18 |
Zusatzinfo | VI, 356 p. |
Verlagsort | New York, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 210 x 279 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4020-0251-3 / 1402002513 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-0251-9 / 9781402002519 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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