Heidegger And Development In The Global South (contributions To Phenomenology)
by Siby George /
2015 / English / PDF
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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 that Martin
Heidegger described in the middle of the last century as ‘the
planetary imperialism of technologically organized man.’
Consequent upon this cultural-intellectual globalization, the
ahistorical, violent, individualistic, calculative and
capitalistic logic of the metaphysics of technology is permeating
the life-world, even of the world’s poorest peoples, in ways they
could neither choose nor control.
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 that Martin
Heidegger described in the middle of the last century as ‘the
planetary imperialism of technologically organized man.’
Consequent upon this cultural-intellectual globalization, the
ahistorical, violent, individualistic, calculative and
capitalistic logic of the metaphysics of technology is permeating
the life-world, even of the world’s poorest peoples, in ways they
could neither choose nor control.
This volume questions the political ethics and justice of
post-war development discourse in the light of the egalitarian
aims of modern societies, cultural freedom of communities and
nations and the ecological limits of the planet. The final
chapters discuss the alternative proposal of development as
various conceptions of good life and equitable human flourishing
amidst equally flourishing non-human life and non-living beings.
This unique volume is the first book-length treatment of the
ontology of modernization and development in the global south
from a Heideggerian stance.
This volume questions the political ethics and justice of
post-war development discourse in the light of the egalitarian
aims of modern societies, cultural freedom of communities and
nations and the ecological limits of the planet. The final
chapters discuss the alternative proposal of development as
various conceptions of good life and equitable human flourishing
amidst equally flourishing non-human life and non-living beings.
This unique volume is the first book-length treatment of the
ontology of modernization and development in the global south
from a Heideggerian stance.