The World as Idea

In The World as Idea Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity--that of "the world".

Autorentext

Charles P. Webel, Ph.D., ***is currently a Professor and Guarantor of the School of International Relations at the University of New York in Prague. A five-time Fulbright Scholar and a research graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, he has studied and taught at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. He is the author or editor of many books, including Peace and Conflict Studies (with David Barash), the standard text in the field, as well as Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition, and The Politics of Rationality*.

Klappentext

In The World as Idea Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity--that of "the world".

Inhalt

Introduction 1. The World and its History 2. From the Existence of the World to Our Existence in This World: The Creation of the Modern Universe 3. Existential and Phenomenological Words and Worlds 4. Talking About the World: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Language of the World A Conclusion Without an End, or an End Without a Conclusion?