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This book analyzes the concept of democracy and its practical application in the twenty-first century from a philosophical and postcolonial perspective.

Ferit Guven illuminates the historically constitutive roles of madness and death in philosophy by examining them in the light of contemporary discussions of the intersection of power and knowledge and ethical relations with the other. Historically, as Guven shows, philosophical treatments of madness and death have limited or subdued their disruptive quality. Madness and death are linked to the question of how to conceptualize the unthinkable, but Guven illustrates how this conceptualization results in a reduction to positivity of the very radical negativity these moments represent. Tracing...