David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of, among others, The Dawn of Everything- A New History of Humanity, Debt- The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs- A Theory, and Pirate Enlightenment, and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, the Guardian, and the Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts helped to make Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on 2 September 2020.
Chatty, punky, anti-everything catnip... it is good fun. It's about
pirates, after all.
*Sunday Times*
Engaging ... the chief pleasure of Graeber's writing is not that
one always agrees with his arguments about the past. It is rather
that, through a series of provocative thought experiments, he
repeatedly forces us to reconsider our own ways of living in the
present. Whatever happened in 18th-century Madagascar, Pirate
Enlightenment implies, we could surely all do with a bit more
free-thinking and egalitarianism in our own social, sexual and
political arrangements.
*The Guardian*
Open and imaginative... Graeber is writing in a hybrid genre of
poetic history, in this sense, but he is also reminding us why such
hybridisation is good for us.
*New Statesman*
A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the
social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the
European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the
best-selling Dawn of Everything.
*Amitav Ghosh*
Feisty, heroic ... a highly original thinker and a wonderful
writer.
*New York Times*
A genius... blazingly original, stunningly wide-ranging, impossibly
well read.
*The Atlantic*
A thinker who revolutionises the way we see the world and helps us
reimagine the things we once took for granted.
*New Statesman*
PRAISE FOR THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING: Iconoclastic and irreverent ...
an exhilarating read.
*The Guardian*
Pacey and potentially revolutionary ... This is more than an
argument about the past, it is about the human condition in the
present.
*Sunday Times*
Blazing with iconoclastic rebuttals to conventional wisdom. Full of
fresh thinking, it's a pleasure to read and offers a bracing
challenge on every page.
*BBC History*
This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast.
*Nassim Nicholas Taleb*
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