Helge Jordheim and Erling Sandmo (eds.) (2019): Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration Across Disciplines (Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations, 4). Berghahn: New York and Oxford.
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… Read More Helge Jordheim and Erling Sandmo (eds.) (2019): Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration Across Disciplines (Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations, 4). Berghahn: New York and Oxford.