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(2015) Heidegger and development in the global south, Dordrecht, Springer.
Development is unveiled in the global south most inconspicuously as the experience of the modern. Looking back at Western modernity in the first half of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger argued that late modernity marked an understanding of all that is or Being as readily available resource or standing reserve. For Heidegger, the technological understanding of Being has a planetary impetus. The chapter briefly lays out the argument of the book that development as modernization can be understood as concretizing the planetary essence of the technological understanding of Being, beset with the problems of an impossible conception of justice and equality, devastation of the planet and the technological transformation of the essence of the human being. Despite Heidegger's problematic politics, his response to the technological society, especially in its planetary dissemination, is insightful.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2304-7_1
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George, S. K. (2015). Heidegger and development: an introduction, in Heidegger and development in the global south, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-27.
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