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Book

After savagery : Gaza, genocide, and the illusion of Western civilization

Call Number

  • 956.943 D1118 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2025.

Physical Description

xxxiv, 218 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of Western philosophy and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized. The death toll in Gaza continues to rise -- a cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism. What remains of the theories we use to understand our world? With lyrical and lucid fury, Hamid Dabashi exposes the racist roots of Western moral phiosophy, demanding that readers overcome its pernicious phantom of relevance"--

Contents

  • Preface: "Exterminate all the brutes," again!
  • Palestine is the world; the world is Palestine
  • Israel is "the West"; "the West" is Israel
  • Poetry after genocide
  • Philosophy after savagery
  • The garrison state versus the Palestinian camp
  • Palestine beyond borders
  • Conclusion: Writing at the time of a genocide.

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