After Savagery

Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization

De: Hamid Dabashi

Narrado por: Nas Mehdi

Written during a genocide, 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 philosophy, demanding that listeners 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.

©2025 Hamid Dabashi (P)2025 Tantor Media

Accurate Description.

This book puts Gaza into a larger historical picture of colonialism by European Empires. I have listened to quite a few books on Gaza. This might be the most powerful. It made me think about empires and wars that just won't go away. I tend to think that war, slaughter and empire building is mostly in men's genes. Laws, tribunals, treaties, rules and sanctions just don't work.
Just look at human and maybe Chimp history. Nurture has not been able to overcome human nature very well.