بعد الوحشية | غزة، والإبادة الجماعية، ووهم الحضارة الغربية

Written during the period of genocide, “[After Savagery](https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2607-after-savagery)” exposes The moral bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it supports the erasure of colonizers. The death toll in Gaza continues to rise, a cold, static figure representing entire communities crushed under the weight of colonialism. Settler. What remains of the theories we use to understand our world? In a poetic and angry manner, Hamid Dabashi exposes the racist roots of Western philosophy, challenging readers to transcend its pernicious illusion of propriety. Rather than seeing “the West” as an absolute benevolence for Israel, Dabashi insists that Israel must be understood as the essence of the West. If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine. Clinging to glimpses of revolutionary literary and cinematic works, Dabashi argues, with sadness and love, that the oppressed of the earth need poetry after barbarism, and that Palestine is a land of liberated imagination.