The end of a metaphor

the base and the superstructure

pp. 419-439

in: Carol C. Gould, Robert S. Cohen (eds), Artifacts, representations and social practice, Berlin, Springer, 1994

Abstract

There are some theoretical terms so closely associated with - assumed to be central and idiosyncratic to - the thought of some thinker that their simple mentioning immediately invokes a name. Cogito "means' Descartes, the "monad" - Leibniz, and similarly "base and superstructure" immediately recalls Marx.

Cited authors

Descartes René

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm

Marx Karl