1st Edition

Displacement of Concepts

Edited By Donald A. Schon Copyright 1963
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in... Read more
Part I The Radical Function; 1. Asking the Question: A Review of some Theories of the Formation of New Concepts; 2. Starting from Scratch: Treating the New in Terms of the Old; 3. Analogy and Metaphor; 4. A Close Look at the Displacement of Concepts; Part II The Conservative Function; 5. The Conservative Function of the Displacement of Concepts; Part III Conclusions; 6. The Life of Metaphors in Theory: A Speculative Conclusion;

Biography

Schon, Donald A.