Conceptualizing the world : an exploration across disciplines / edited by Helge Jordheim and Erling Sandmo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jordheim, Helge, Editor.

Sandmo, Erling, Editor.

Series:

Time and the world: interdisciplinary studies in cultural transformations ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2019]

Summary:

What is—and what was—“the world”? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and inexorable progress of globalization, concepts of “world,” “globe,” or “earth” instead suggest something limited and absolute. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume concerns itself with this central paradox: that the complex, heterogeneous, and purportedly transhistorical dynamics of globalization have given rise to the idea and reality of a finite—and thus vulnerable—world. Through studies of illuminating historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth, each contribution helps to trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

Contents:

"World": An Exploration of the Relationship between Conceptual History and Etymology / Ivo Spira

A Multiverse of Knowledge: The Epistemology and Hermeneutics of the ?alam in Medieval Islamic Thought / Nora S. Eggen

Globalization of Human Conscience: A Modern Muslim Case / Oddbjorn Leirvik

Creating World through Concept Learning / Claudia Lenz

Between Metaphor and Geopolitics: The History of the Concept the Third World / Erik Tangerstad

On the Dialectics of Ecological World Concepts / Falko Schmieder

The Emergence of International Law and the Opening of World Order: Hugo Grotius Reconsidered / Chenxi Tang

"Natural Capital," "Human Capital," "Social Capital": It's All Capital Now / Desmond McNeill

The Worlds in Human Rights: Images or Mirages? / Malcolm Langford

Democracy of the "New World": The Great Binding Law of Peace and the Political System of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy / Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo

The Immanent World: Responsibility and Spatial Justice / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

From Critical to Partisan Dictionaries; or, What Is Excluded from Today's Flat World Orthodoxies? / Sanja Perovic

At Home or Away: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Cosmopolitanism / Olivier Remaud

Extensions of World Heritage: The Globe, the List, and the Limes / Stefan Willer

Transforming the Global Past: From Heredity to Heritage / Anne Eriksen

The End of the World: From the Lisbon Earthquake to the Last Days / Kyrre Kverndokk

Time and Space in World Literature: Ibsen in and out of Sync / Tore Rem

Middle Age of the Globe / Alfred Hiatt

The Champion of the North: World Time in Olaus Magnus's Carta marina / Erling Sandmo

The Search for Vinland and Norse Conceptions of the World / Karl G. Johansson

The Cartographic Constitution of Global Politics / Jeppe Strandsbjerg

The Individual and the "Intellectual Globe": Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Vannevar Bush / Richard Yeo

The World as Sphere: Conceptualizing with Sloterdijk / Kari van Dijk

The Fontenellian Moment: Revisiting Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Worlds / Helge Jordheim

Fixating the Poles: Science, Fiction, and Photography at the Ends of the World / Siv Froydis Berg

The Norwegian Who Became a Globe: Mediation and Temporality in Roald Amundsen's 1911 South Pole Conquest / Espen Ytreberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789200379

1789200377

OCLC:

1079008057