11-14-2024, 11:55 AM
epub | 8.13 MB | English| Isbn:9780374610234 | Author: David Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky (Editor), Rebecca Solnit (Foreword by) | Year: 2024
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Quote:Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.Category:Social Sciences, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), Graeber was as well-known for his sharp, lively essays as he was for his iconic role in the Occupy movement and his paradigm-shifting tomes.
There are converging political, economic, and ecological crises, and yet our politics is dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a mythical past. Thinking against the grain, Graeber was one of the few who dared to imagine a new understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future-to imagine a social order based on humans' fundamental freedom. In essays published over three decades and ranging across the biggest issues of our time- inequality, technology, the identity of "the West," demacy, art, power, anger, mutual aid, and protest-he challenges the old assumptions about political life. A trenchant critic of the order of things, and driven by a bold imagination and a passionate commitment to human freedom, he offers hope that our world can be different.
During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . . , edited and with an introduction by Nika Dubrovsky and with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit, make for essential and inspiring reading. They are a profound reminder of Graeber's enduring significance as an iconic, playful, necessary thinker.