Conceptualizing the World

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.

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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 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. 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



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