Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration across Disciplines

✍ Scribed by Helge Jordheim (editor), Erling Sandmo (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 409
• Series: Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations, 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Conceptualizing the World
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Contents
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Introduction. The World as Concept and Object of Knowledge
Part I. Naming the World
Chapter 1. \“World\”
Chapter 2. A Multiverse of Knowledge
Chapter 3. Globalization of Human Conscience
Chapter 4. Creating World through Concept Learning
Chapter 5. Between Metaphor and Geopolitics
Chapter 6. On the Dialectics of Ecological World Concepts
Part II. Ordering the World
Chapter 7. The Emergence of International Law and the Opening of World Order
Chapter 8. \“Natural Capital,\” \“Human Capital,\” \“Social Capital\”
Chapter 9. The Worlds in Human Rights
Chapter 10. Democracy of the \“New World\”
Chapter 11. The Immanent World
Chapter 12. From Critical to Partisan Dictionaries; or, What Is Excluded from Today\’s Flat World Orthodoxies
Part III. Timing the World
Chapter 13. At Home or Away
Chapter 14. Extensions of World Heritage
Chapter 15. The End of the World
Chapter 16. Time and Space in World Literature
Part IV. Mapping the World
Chapter 17. Middle Age of the Globe
Chapter 18. The Champion of the North
Chapter 19. The Search for V\ínland and Norse Conceptions of the World
Chapter 20. The Cartographic Constitution of Global Politics
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Part V. Making the World
Chapter 22. The World as Sphere
Chapter 23. The Fontenellian Moment
Chapter 24. Fixating the Poles
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