Conceptualizing the World

An Exploration across Disciplines
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-036-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordheim, Helge

Sandmo, Erling

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: The World as Concept and Object of Knowledge

Helge Jordheim and Erling Sandmo

PART I: NAMING THE WORLD

Chapter 1. “World”: An Exploration of the Relationship between Conceptual History and Etymology

Ivo Spira

Chapter 2. A Multiverse of Knowledge: The Epistemology and Hermeneutics of the 'alam in Medieval Islamic Thought

Nora S. Eggen

Chapter 3. Globalization of Human Conscience: A Modern Muslim Case

Oddbjørn Leirvik

Chapter 4. Creating World through Concept Learning

Claudia Lenz

Chapter 5. Between Metaphor and Geopolitics: The History of the Concept the Third World

Erik Tängerstad

Chapter 6. On the Dialectics of Ecological World Concepts

Falko Schmieder

PART II: ORDERING THE WORLD

Chapter 7. The Emergence of International Law and the Opening of World Order: Hugo Grotius Reconsidered

Chenxi Tang

Chapter 8. “Natural Capital,” “Human Capital,” “Social Capital”: It’s All Capital Now

Desmond McNeill

Chapter 9. The Worlds in Human Rights: Images or Mirages?

Malcolm Langford

Chapter 10. Democracy of the “New World”: The Great Binding Law of Peace and the Political System of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo

Chapter 11. The Immanent World: Responsibility and Spatial Justice

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos



Chapter 12. From Critical to Partisan Dictionaries; or, What Is Excluded from Today’s Flat World Orthodoxies?

Sanja Perovic

PART III: TIMING THE WORLD

Chapter 13. At Home or Away: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Cosmopolitanism

Olivier Remaud

Chapter 14. Extensions of World Heritage: The Globe, the List, and the Limes

Stefan Willer

Chapter 15. The End of the World: From the Lisbon Earthquake to the Last Days

Kyrre Kverndokk

Chapter 16. Time and Space in World Literature: Ibsen in and out of Sync

Tore Rem

PART IV: MAPPING THE WORLD

Chapter 17. Middle Age of the Globe

Alfred Hiatt

Chapter 18. The Champion of the North: World Time in Olaus Magnus’s Carta Marina

Erling Sandmo

Chapter 19. The Search for Vínland and Norse Conceptions of the World

Karl G. Johansson

Chapter 20. The Cartographic Constitution of Global Politics

Jeppe Strandsbjerg

Chapter 21. The Individual and the “Intellectual Globe”: Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Vannevar Bush

Richard Yeo

PART V: MAKING THE WORLD

Chapter 22. The World as Sphere: Conceptualizing with Sloterdijk

Kari van Dijk



Chapter 23. The Fontenellian Moment: Revisiting Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Worlds

Helge Jordheim



Chapter 24. Fixating the Poles: Science, Fiction, and Photography at the Ends of the World

Siv Frøydis Berg



Chapter 25. The Norwegian Who Became a Globe: Mediation and Temporality in Roald Amundsen’s 1911 South Pole Conquest

Espen Ytreberg

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jordheim, Helge
Helge Jordheim is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. His latest book is a global history of the concepts of civility and civilization, written with an international team of scholars (Civilizing Emotions, 2015). At present he is writing a book on the cultural history of time in the eighteenth century.

Sandmo, Erling
Erling Sandmo is Professor of History at the University of Oslo and the director of the National Library of Norway's Center for Historical Cartography. His most recent books are Monstrous: Sea Monsters in Maps and Literature, 1491-1895 (2017) and the co-edited Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge (2018). He is currently working on a book on Olaus Magnus.

Helge Jordheim is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. His latest book is a global history of the concepts of civility and civilization, written with an international team of scholars (Civilizing Emotions, 2015). At present he is writing a book on the cultural history of time in the eighteenth century.