Survival and Modernization, Ethiopia's Enigmatic Present
Subtitle: A Philosophical Discourse
Publisher: Red Sea Press
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781569020845
Subjects: Mysticism; Political History; History; Political Doctrines; Social Change; Sociology - General; Body, Mind & Spirit; History - General History; New Age; Africa - East - Ethiopia; 19th century; 1889-1974; 1974-; Ethiopia
First sentence: Rare are those books on Ethiopia which do not open with a frank amazement at its varied and contrasted physical appearance.
Description: Survival and Modernization - Ethiopia's Enigmatic Present tackles the enigmatic question on Ethiopia's failure to modernize. The enigma springs from the absence in Ethiopia of the major deficiencies invoked to explain underdevelopment. By combining sociological and political analyses with philosophical inquiries, the book attempts to explain how Ethiopia was driven into a wrong track through various historical detours, delays, indecisions, and uprootedness.