Chapter 1 Metaphors: Is there a Bridge over Troubled Waters?

Chapter 2 Who is Afraid of Metaphors?

Chapter 3 How Nature Became the Other: Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Chapter 4 The Manifest and the Scientific

Chapter 5 The Nexus of Animal and Rational: Sociobiology, Language, and the Enlightenment Study of Apes

Chapter 6 Social Metaphors in Evolutionary Biology, 1870–1930: The Wider Dimension of Social Darwinism

Chapter 7 “Struggle for Existences”: Selection and Retention of a Metaphor

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

Chapter 10 The Superorganism Metaphor: Then and Now

Chapter 11 Defining the Organism in the Welfare State: The Politics of Individuality in American Culture, 1890–1950

Chapter 12 A Plague Upon Your House: Commercial Crisis and Epidemic Disease in Victorian England

Chapter 13 Evolutionary Metaphors in Explanations of American Industrial Competition

Chapter 14 Biological and Physical Metaphors in Economics