Conceptualizing the World : An Exploration across Disciplines /: An Exploration across Disciplines. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helge Jordheim, Erling Sandmo.
• Editors: Jordheim, Helge; Sandmo, Erling
• Contents: Introduction ; 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 ʿālam 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. Transforming the Global Past: From Heredity to Heritage; Anne Eriksen Chapter 16. The End of the World: From the Lisbon Earthquake to the Last Days; Kyrre Kverndokk Chapter 17. Time and Space in World Literature: Ibsen in and out of Sync; Tore Rem PART IV: MAPPING THE WORLD Chapter 18. Middle Age of the Globe; Alfred Hiatt Chapter 19. The Champion of the North: World Time in Olaus Magnus’s Carta Marina; Erling Sandmo Chapter 20. The Search for Vínland and Norse Conceptions of the World; Karl G. Johansson Chapter 21. The Cartographic Constitution of Global Politics; Jeppe Strandsbjerg Chapter 22. The Individual and the “Intellectual Globe”: Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Vannevar Bush; Richard Yeo PART V: MAKING THE WORLD Chapter 23. The World as Sphere: Conceptualizing with Sloterdijk; Kari van Dijk ; ; Chapter 24. The Fontenellian Moment: Revisiting Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Worlds; Helge Jordheim ; ; Chapter 25. Fixating the Poles: Science, Fiction, and Photography at the Ends of the World; Siv Frøydis Berg ; ; Chapter 26. The Norwegian Who Became a Globe: Mediation and Temporality in Roald Amundsen’s 1911 South Pole Conquest; Espen Ytreberg
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (408 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789200379; 1789200377
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