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Written during a genocide, **After Savagery ****reveals the ethical bankruptcy of "Western philosophy" and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.
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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 philosophy, demanding that readers overcome its pernicious phantom of relevance. Rather than perceiving "the West" as giving carte blanche to Israel, Dabashi insists that Israel must be understood as its quintessence.

If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine. Holding 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.

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Introduction: "Exterminate All the Brutes," Again!
Chapter One: Palestine Is the World; the World Is Palestine
Chapter Two: Israel Is the West; the West Is Israel
Chapter Three: Poetry After Genocide
Chapter Four: Philosophy After Savagery
Chapter Five: The Garrison State Versus the Palestinian Camp
Chapter Six: Palestine Beyond Borders
Conclusion: Writing at the Time of a Genocide