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Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Metaphors: Is there a Bridge over Troubled Waters?
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    Chapter 2 Who is Afraid of Metaphors?
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    Chapter 3 How Nature Became the Other: Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
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    Chapter 4 The Manifest and the Scientific
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    Chapter 5 The Nexus of Animal and Rational: Sociobiology, Language, and the Enlightenment Study of Apes
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    Chapter 6 Social Metaphors in Evolutionary Biology, 1870–1930: The Wider Dimension of Social Darwinism
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    Chapter 7 “Struggle for Existences”: Selection and Retention of a Metaphor
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    Chapter 8 The Importance of the Concepts of “Organism” and “Evolution” in Emile Durkheim’s Division of Social Labor and the Influence of Herbert Spencer
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    Chapter 9 Herbert Spencer: Biology, Sociology, and Cosmic Evolution
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    Chapter 10 The Superorganism Metaphor: Then and Now
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    Chapter 11 Defining the Organism in the Welfare State: The Politics of Individuality in American Culture, 1890–1950
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    Chapter 12 A Plague Upon Your House: Commercial Crisis and Epidemic Disease in Victorian England
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    Chapter 13 Evolutionary Metaphors in Explanations of American Industrial Competition
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    Chapter 14 Biological and Physical Metaphors in Economics
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Chapter title
The Nexus of Animal and Rational: Sociobiology, Language, and the Enlightenment Study of Apes
Chapter number 5
Book title
Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1995
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-0673-3_5
Book ISBNs
978-1-4020-0251-9, 978-9-40-110673-3
Authors

Robert Wokler

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Country Count As %
Germany 1 25%
Unknown 3 75%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 2 50%
Researcher 2 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 4 100%

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