Titlebook: Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors; Sabine Maasen,Everett Mendelsohn,Peter Weingart Book 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers 19

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“Struggle for Existences”: Selection and Retention of a Metaphortition as well as Malthus’ demographic theory from society into organic nature. After having accomplished this trick ... it is easy to transfer these theories back from natural history into the history of society ... and to claim one had proved this thesis as an eternal natural law of society.” This

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Defining the Organism in the Welfare State: The Politics of Individuality in American Culture, 1890–n understanding of dichotomy, of boundaries to be transgressed. Framing the problem in this way legitimates the disciplinary boundaries central to the professional identity of the biological and social sciences and to their professional authority within the public sphere. For example, one might deta

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A Plague Upon Your House: Commercial Crisis and Epidemic Disease in Victorian Englandhas called “everyday” language.. Within that realm, however, the problem of transfer and the meaning of metaphors take on different dimensions. This paper, in discussing nineteenth-century uses of epidemic language to describe commercial crises, demonstrates some of these differences. For one thing,

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Evolutionary Metaphors in Explanations of American Industrial Competitiontion that swept through American society in the late nineteenth century. The particular focus of this paper. is the way these phrases gained currency and were used in contemporary explanations of American industrial competition. The context for their usage was the well-known growth of “Big Business.

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Andreas Binzenh?fer,Holger SchnabelIn his well-known, though less well-read book ., Douglas Hofstadter tells the story of the history of non-Euclidean geometry. Euclid attempted to give definitions of ordinary, common words such as “point,” “straight line,” “circle,” and so forth.

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Matthias Stümpfle,Akhtar JameelThe aim of this essay. is to examine and compare the roles of both biological and mechanistic metaphor in economics.. Pioneers of modern economic theory often made reference to the mechanical analogy, and the metaphors of classical mechanics and pre-1860 physics still pervade modern economic science.