دانلود کتاب The Babylonian Planet: Culture and Encounter Under Globalization

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Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 The Babylonian Planet
Babel reloaded
Global flows
Building Babel
What Babel means
BBL
Tower and ruin
Language and stars
The whole earth
The planet of the Other
2 Europe: Myth and Translation
The Mediterranean Sea
The myth of Europe
Europe as name—or the politics of translation
In the ear of the Other: the epyllion of Moschos
Phoenician–Greek: between the languages, between the letters
The prime meridian
Tiepolo’s Treppenhaus
M/Other
3 On the Shores of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris
The grand capital
A postcard from the edge of language
On the edge of the capital
Shorelines (I)
The politics of showing
Benchmarks of migration
Shorelines (II)
The language of the republic
Accent-free Creole
Couci couça
4 Outre Mèr(e): Jacques Derrida and the Mediterranean
The sea in between
The metropolis
“Mèr(e)”
Jacques Dreirad
The other wheel
Arabic
Jewish
Uncanny mouth of the uterus
5 The Southern Cross: The Planetarism of Alexander von Humboldt and François Arago
The language of human rights
Arago’s universe
Babylonian friendship
Humboldt’s Cosmos
A star like a friend
Moon viewing in Cumaná
Cosmos, universe, globalization
6 Sublunar: Star Friendship in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle
The Venetian and Hoja
“Sages” and “scholars”
Pamuk’s cosmology
Mirror scenes
Star friendship
7 In Earth Orbit: Constellation “Suitcase.” Planetary Aesthetics in William Kentridge’s Felix in Exile
Remembrance and forgetting
A poetics of segregation
Planetary aesthetics
Moon views
The dilemma of the telescope
Handwork and onanism
Behind the horizon
8 Intergalactic: Universal Translation. Immanuel Kant, the Spaceship Enterprise, and the Circulation of the Planets
Cosmopolitanism
Television
The United Federation of Planets
The universal translator
Babylonian conference
9 Heaven on Earth: Paul, a Cosmopolitan?
Why Paul?
The event (the subsets)
Being-gentile (έθνος)
Sonhood (lineage)
Paul, a cosmopolitan?
Cosmic singularity
10 Finally: East Pole and West Pole
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index