For a long time regarded sympathetically by a Europe emerging from the anti-fascist war, the peoples struggling to achieve or preserve their independence have been forgotten and re-racialized with the onset of the Western recolonization of the world, to the point that it took tens of thousands of victims for the Palestinians to be deemed worthy of the word "genocide." The tragedy of Gaza has brought to light the deep-seated hypocrisy of the liberal conscience, showing how the universalism of which progressive Westerners boast is in fact false and incomplete, since it claims to exhaust totality but has never managed to understand those peoples to whom it denies autonomy and the right to self-govern. How long, however, will this window of truth last? Is it possible to go beyond the abstract and immediate universalism that legitimizes the revival of white supremacism without falling into relativism, and instead to build a project of concrete universality because it is shared and conceived from the very beginning in dialogue among cultures?
Dov’è Dio dopo Gaza? Il genocidio postmoderno e la crisi dell’universalismo liberale
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Abstract
For a long time regarded sympathetically by a Europe emerging from the anti-fascist war, the peoples struggling to achieve or preserve their independence have been forgotten and re-racialized with the onset of the Western recolonization of the world, to the point that it took tens of thousands of victims for the Palestinians to be deemed worthy of the word "genocide." The tragedy of Gaza has brought to light the deep-seated hypocrisy of the liberal conscience, showing how the universalism of which progressive Westerners boast is in fact false and incomplete, since it claims to exhaust totality but has never managed to understand those peoples to whom it denies autonomy and the right to self-govern. How long, however, will this window of truth last? Is it possible to go beyond the abstract and immediate universalism that legitimizes the revival of white supremacism without falling into relativism, and instead to build a project of concrete universality because it is shared and conceived from the very beginning in dialogue among cultures?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
