American Possibilism and some its Theological Assumptions on Development

ANDRES DAPUEZ

Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies

Academic Society for the Research of Religions and Ideologies

Año: 2016

1583-0039

!--[if gte mso 9]> 800x600 This paper investigates how the internationaldevelopment enterprise further expanded a bi-polar ontology. In a renewedversion of the ontological mode Descola has named ?naturalism? (2013), developmentset social expectations in terms of a progressive future framed by violent ruptures,crisis, perils and an actual threat of human annihilation. Depending not onlyupon the dissemination of discursive forms through linguistic practices but alsoon a particular change in our contemporary doxa, development language ofcollective social improvement has been based upon a particular mode of ontologicalnaturalism. Since its inception, after the World War II, it articulates tworadical sets of possibilities, one of infinite progre