Decolonizing Democracy: Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory analyzes the concept and the discourse of democracy. Ferit Güven demonstrates how democracy is deployed as a neo-colonial tool to discipline and further subjugate formerly colonized peoples and spaces. The book explains why increasing democratization of the political space in the last three decades produced an increasing dissatisfaction and alienation from the process of governance, rather than a contentment as one might have expected from "the rule of the people.Decolonizing Democracyaims to provide a conceptual response to the crisis of democracy in contemporary world. With both a unique scope and argument, this book will appeal to both philosophy and political science scholars, as well as those involved in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and peace studies.

Ferit Güven is professor of philosophy at Earlham College.

Chapter 1: The Genealogy of Democracy: From Plato to SchmittChapter 2: Foucault, Bio-disciplinary power and Cogitological PowerChapter 3: Democracy and Specters of Post/Neo ColonialismChapter 4: Hunger Strikers, Suicide Bombers& All the other Evil TerroristsChapter 5: Derrida and Democracy-to-come