The ultimate hidden truth of the world... : essays
Graeber, David2024
Book
"Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. "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."-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
The ultimate hidden truth of the world... : essays / David Graeber ; edited and introduced by Nika Dubrovsky ; foreword by Rebecca Solnit.
Author:
Imprint:
[London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024.©2024
Collation:
xix, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
97802417343919780241734391 (paperback)
Dewey class:
301
Language:
English
BRN:
814247
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | -Society | SOCIETY 301 GRAE | On loan - Due: 08 Jul 2026 |
| Library at the Dock | -Society | SOCIETY 301 GRAE | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | -Society | SOCIETY 301 GRAE | On loan - Due: 11 Jul 2026 |