{"product_id":"after-savagery-hamid-dabashi-9798888904503","title":"After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWritten at the time of a genocide, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter Savagery \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ereveals the ethical bankruptcy of \"Western philosophy\" and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe death toll in Gaza continues to rise\u003cstrong\u003e―\u003c\/strong\u003ea cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism. At a time of global outrage against a livestreamed genocide, politicians, well-respected scholars, and influential celebrities remain perplexed by the notion of Palestinian humanity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With lyrical and lucid fury, Hamid Dabashi exposes the racist roots of Western philosophy, demanding that readers overcome its pernicious phantom of relevance. Rather than perceiving the West as giving a carte blanche to Israel to commit atrocities in Palestine, Dabashi insists that Israel must be understood as the \"quintessence of the West.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine. Holding on to glimmers from revolutionary works of literature and film, Dabashi argues, in grief and love, that the wretched of the earth need poetry after barbarism--and that Palestine is the site of a liberated imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hamid Dabashi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888904503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Hamid Dabashi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46825716482303,"sku":"9798888904503","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d30dd53b-f85c-4260-91f9-27ed1bf2353c.jpg?v=1746073432","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-savagery-hamid-dabashi-9798888904503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}