Conceptualizing the world an exploration across disciplines / Edited by Helge Jordheim and Erling Sandmo.
| Other author | Jordheim, Helge. |
| Other author | Sandmo, Erling. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn, 2019. |
| Description | ix, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Time and the world: interdisciplinary studies in cultural transformations ; volume 4 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018048856 |
| ISBN | 9781789200362 (hardback) |