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, a

Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving t

Despite the increased salience of metaphor in organization theory, there is still very little conceptual machinery for capturing and explaining how metaphor cre

Metaphor lies at the heart of the contemporary debate in aesthetics, semantics and the philosophy of science. It is generally recognised now that metaphor is no

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data processing syste