Conceptualizing the World : : An Exploration across Disciplines / / ed. by Helge Jordheim, Erling Sandmo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Berg, Siv Frøydis,; Dijk, Kari van,; Eggen, Nora S.,; Hiatt, Alfred,; Johansson, Karl G.,; Jordheim, Helge,; Kverndokk, Kyrre,; Langford, Malcolm,; Leirvik, Oddbjørn,; Lenz, Claudia,; McNeill, Desmond,; Perovic, Sanja,; Pharo, Lars Kirkhusmo,; Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas,; Rem, Tore,; Remaud, Olivier,; Sandmo, Erling,; Schmieder, Falko,; Spira, Ivo,; Strandsbjerg, Jeppe,; Tang, Chenxi,; Tängerstad, Erik,; Willer, Stefan,; Yeo, Richard,; Ytreberg, Espen,
• HerausgeberIn: Jordheim, Helge,; Sandmo, Erling,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction. The World as Concept and Object of Knowledge -- Part I NAMING THE WORLD -- 1 “World” An Exploration of the Relationship between Conceptual History and Etymology -- 2 A Multiverse of Knowledge: The Epistemology and Hermeneutics of the ʿālam Medieval Islamic Thought -- 3 Globalization of Human Conscience: A Modern Muslim Case -- 4 Creating World through Concept Learning -- 5 Between Metaphor and Geopolitics: The History of the Concept the Third World -- 6 On the Dialectics of Ecological World Concepts -- Part II ORDERING THE WORLD -- 7 The Emergence of International Law and the Opening of World Order: Hugo Grotius Reconsidered -- 8 “Natural Capital,” “Human Capital,” “Social Capital” It’s All Capital Now -- 9 The Worlds in Human Rights: Images or Mirages? -- 10 Democracy of the “New World” The Great Binding Law of Peace and the Political System of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy -- 11 The Immanent World: Responsibility and Spatial Justice -- 12 From Critical to Partisan Dictionaries; or, What Is Excluded from Today’s Flat World Orthodoxies? -- Part III TIMING THE WORLD -- 13 At Home or Away: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Cosmopolitanism -- 14 Extensions of World Heritage: The Globe, the List, and the Limes -- 15 The End of the World: From the Lisbon Earthquake to the Last Days -- 16 Time and Space in World Literature: Ibsen in and out of Sync -- Part IV MAPPING THE WORLD -- 17 Middle Age of the Globe -- 18 The Champion of the North: World Time in Olaus Magnus’s Carta marina -- 19 The Search for Vínland and Norse Conceptions of the World -- 20 The Cartographic Constitution of Global Politics -- 21 The Individual and the “Intellectual Globe” Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Vannevar Bush -- Part V MAKING THE WORLD -- 22 The World as Sphere: Conceptualizing with Sloterdijk -- 23 The Fontenellian Moment: Revisiting Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Worlds -- 24 Fixating the Poles: Science, Fiction, and Photography at the Ends of the World -- 25 The Norwegian Who Became a Globe: Mediation and Temporality in Roald Amundsen’s 1911 South Pole Conquest -- Index