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Title: Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
Author: David Graeber
ISBN: 9781250397645
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 384
Publisher Description: <p><b>Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. <p/></b>"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 <i>Debt</i> and the breakout <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Dawn of Everything </i>(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. <p/>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," democracy, 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. <p/>During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in <i>The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .</i>, 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.</p>
Author: David Graeber
ISBN: 9781250397645
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 384
Publisher Description: <p><b>Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. <p/></b>"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 <i>Debt</i> and the breakout <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Dawn of Everything </i>(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. <p/>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," democracy, 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. <p/>During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in <i>The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .</i>, 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.</p>
