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.<>

Product details

• Authors: David Graeber, Graeber David
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.2025
• EAN: 9781802061604
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-160-4
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Labour / income economics, Political science & theory, Labour Economics, Literary essays, Sociology & anthropology, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Sociology and anthropology, Anarchism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General