Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration across Disciplines

Published by Berghahn Books 2018

Conceptualizing the World

An Exploration across Disciplines

Edited by: Helge Jordheim and Erling Sandmo

Volume 4 in the series Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789200379

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

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.

Reviews

“A fascinating journey at large, travelling over the concepts and representations of ‘the world’, across languages and cultures, discourses and disciplines, media and materialities.” • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

“This is a thought-provoking collection of essays that deals with a question of interest to scholars across the humanities. It is enriched by the broad range of approaches and topics present in each essay.” • Sara-Louise Cooper, University of Kent

“Conceptualizing the World is a fantastic, original cornucopia of valuable insights into how humans have thought about and experienced the world across history.” • Ingjerd Hoëm, University of Oslo

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction. The World as Concept and Object of Knowledge Helge Jordheim and Erling Sandmo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I NAMING THE WORLD
1 “World” An Exploration of the Relationship between Conceptual History and Etymology Ivo Spira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2 A Multiverse of Knowledge: The Epistemology and Hermeneutics of the ʿālam Medieval Islamic Thought Nora S. Eggen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3 Globalization of Human Conscience: A Modern Muslim Case Oddbjørn Leirvik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4 Creating World through Concept Learning Claudia Lenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
5 Between Metaphor and Geopolitics: The History of the Concept the Third World Erik Tängerstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6 On the Dialectics of Ecological World Concepts Falko Schmieder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Part II ORDERING THE WORLD
7 The Emergence of International Law and the Opening of World Order: Hugo Grotius Reconsidered Chenxi Tang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
8 “Natural Capital,” “Human Capital,” “Social Capital” It’s All Capital Now Desmond McNeill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
9 The Worlds in Human Rights: Images or Mirages? Malcolm Langford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
10 Democracy of the “New World” The Great Binding Law of Peace and the Political System of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
11 The Immanent World: Responsibility and Spatial Justice Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
12 From Critical to Partisan Dictionaries; or, What Is Excluded from Today’s Flat World Orthodoxies? Sanja Perovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Part III TIMING THE WORLD
13 At Home or Away: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Cosmopolitanism Olivier Remaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
14 Extensions of World Heritage: The Globe, the List, and the Limes Stefan Willer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
15 The End of the World: From the Lisbon Earthquake to the Last Days Kyrre Kverndokk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
16 Time and Space in World Literature: Ibsen in and out of Sync Tore Rem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Part IV MAPPING THE WORLD
17 Middle Age of the Globe Alfred Hiatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
18 The Champion of the North: World Time in Olaus Magnus’s Carta marina Erling Sandmo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
19 The Search for Vínland and Norse Conceptions of the World Karl G. Johansson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
20 The Cartographic Constitution of Global Politics Jeppe Strandsbjerg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
21 The Individual and the “Intellectual Globe” Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Vannevar Bush Richard Yeo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Part V MAKING THE WORLD
22 The World as Sphere: Conceptualizing with Sloterdijk Kari van Dijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
23 The Fontenellian Moment: Revisiting Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Worlds Helge Jordheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
24 Fixating the Poles: Science, Fiction, and Photography at the Ends of the World Siv Frøydis Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
25 The Norwegian Who Became a Globe: Mediation and Temporality in Roald Amundsen’s 1911 South Pole Conquest Espen Ytreberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 408
Keywords: World History; Historical Geography; Cartography; Cultural Anthropology; Globalization

eBook

Published: December 17, 2018
ISBN: 9781789200379