Metaphors and the Dynamics of Knowledge -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge: preliminary thoughts -- 1 Analysing knowledge dynamics, in general, and the role of metaphors, in particular -- Observing the dynamics of 'ideas' in society -- Changing the observatory: a systems-theoretical and discourse-analytical approach -- 2 Metaphors as targets and tools in the analysis of knowledge dynamics -- Troubling terms -- Metaphor analysis from 'above', from 'below', and from 'in between' -- Metaphor analyses of knowledge dynamics -- 3 'Struggle for existence': selection, retention and extinction of a metaphor -- Vignette -- Functions and dysfunctions of metaphors in science -- Kampf urns Dasein - popularization and contexts of usage -- change of context: Weismann and the Krupp competition -- The metadiscourse on 'struggle for existence' -- 4 Of paradigms, shifts, and changes - the Kuhnian metaphor -- Vignette -- Thomas Kuhn's Structure - 'The right text at the right time' -- The 'Kuhnianization' of the social sciences -- Paving the way for postmodernism - the Kuhnian metaphor at work -- Kuhn, bartenders, theologians, and ice-cream parlours -- 5 The order of meaning: the career of chaos as a metaphor -- Vignette -- Introduction -- The career of chaos as a metaphor -- Chaos in contemporary social science discourses -- Metaphor transfer - discursive order out of/within chaos? -- 6 Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge -- Struggle, Kuhn, and chaos: changing metaphors denoting change -- Struggle, Kuhn, and chaos: how metaphors create something new -- Dynamics of knowledge: from memes to metaphors -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.