Heidegger and Development in the Global South

• Main Author: George, Siby K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Contributions To Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 82
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Phenomenology.; Sociology.; Sociological Theory.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

Taking the Heideggerian critical ontology of technology as its base, this volume looks at postcolonial modernization and development in the global south as the worldwide expansion of the western metaphysical understanding of reality. We live today in an increasingly globalizing technological society...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Heidegger and Development: An Introduction
• Chapter 2. Historicizing the Development Narrative
• Chapter 3. War and Development.- Chapter 4. Capital, Individual and Development.- Chapter 5. Justice, Ethics, Development.- Chapter 6. The Idea of Development.- Chapter 7. Development and Distress: Concluding Remarks.