The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

"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," 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.
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 Dubrovksy 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.<>

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David Graeber has always been an inspiration to me. Reading him fills me with both hope and joy... The tools he has shared to help all of us deconstruct the current reality we inhabit are invaluable. The more people that we can reach the more chance of a reimagined world is possible Clive Lewis MP

Product details

• Authors: David Graeber, Graeber David
• Assisted by: Nika Dubrovsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9780241611555
• ISBN: 978-0-241-61155-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Labour / income economics, Political science & theory, Labour Economics, Sociology & anthropology, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms, Sociology and anthropology, Anarchism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General