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Conceptualizng the World : an Exploration Across Disciplines.
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 interdisciplinar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books, Incorporated,
2018.
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| Colección: | Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Conceptualizing the World; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction. The World as Concept and Object of Knowledge; Part I. Naming the World; Chapter 1. "World"; Chapter 2. A Multiverse of Knowledge; Chapter 3. Globalization of Human Conscience; Chapter 4. Creating World through Concept Learning; Chapter 5. Between Metaphor and Geopolitics; Chapter 6. On the Dialectics of Ecological World Concepts; Part II. Ordering the World; Chapter 7. The Emergence of International Law and the Opening of World Order; Chapter 8. "Natural Capital," "Human Capital," "Social Capital."
- Chapter 9. The Worlds in Human RightsChapter 10. Democracy of the "New World"; Chapter 11. The Immanent World; Chapter 12. From Critical to Partisan Dictionaries; or, What Is Excluded from Today's Flat World Orthodoxies; Part III. Timing the World; Chapter 13. At Home or Away; Chapter 14. Extensions of World Heritage; Chapter 15. The End of the World; Chapter 16. Time and Space in World Literature; Part IV. Mapping the World; Chapter 17. Middle Age of the Globe; Chapter 18. The Champion of the North; Chapter 19. The Search for Vínland and Norse Conceptions of the World
- Chapter 20. The Cartographic Constitution of Global PoliticsChapter 21. The Individual and the "Intellectual Globe"; Part V. Making the World; Chapter 22. The World as Sphere; Chapter 23. The Fontenellian Moment; Chapter 24. Fixating the Poles; Chapter 25. The Norwegian Who Became a Globe; Index