Thomas Wegmann

Die Untersuchungen in diesem Band hinterfragen den Wandel von statischen hin zu dynamischen, »verzeitlichten« Ordnungsschemata naturkundlichen Wissens, der sich im historischen Prozess der ... mehr

The following account is based on the idea that metaphors are not only illustrative but constructive: they connect things and create new meanings that would not exist without them. The tricky point seems to me that metaphors are unavoidable, yet can only be determined situatively, because they are the result of complex transfers of meaning. In order to make these assumptions plausible, I will use some examples from the history of microbiology, especially from the discourse of the parasite. mehr