Siby K. George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. A Master’s degree graduate from the University of Madras, Chennai, he holds a doctorate in philosophy from the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He has previously been Lecturer at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, and before that, Coordinator of the UNFPA supported Population and Development Education project of the Government of India at the State Resource Centre, NEHU, Shillong. His area of research is twentieth century Continental Philosophy and he studies development, pain, community, environment, subjectivity and so on from a phenomenological point of view, which is not inattentive to non-western contexts. His papers include “Birth of the subject: The ethics of monitoring development programmes” in Journal of Global Ethics (2008); “Development and the other: On the bearing of egalitariansensibility on development” in Economic and Political Weekly (2010); and “Imagining post science: Heidegger and development communication” in Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture (2013).

• 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.