Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by Graeber, David

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of...
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Author: David Graeber
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by Graeber, David

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

$28.80

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

$28.80
Author: David Graeber
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.

Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies--vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire.

In graduate school, David Graeber conducted ethnographic field research in Madagascar for his doctoral thesis on the island's politics and history of slavery and magic. During this time, he encountered the Zana-Malata, an ethnic group of mixed descendants of the many pirates who settled on the island at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, Graeber's final posthumous book, is the outgrowth of this early research and the culmination of ideas that he developed in his classic, bestselling works Debt and The Dawn of Everything (written with the archaeologist David Wengrow). In this lively, incisive exploration, Graeber considers how the protodemocratic, even libertarian practices of the Zana-Malata came to shape the Enlightenment project, which for too long has been defined as distinctly European. He illuminates the non-European origins of what we consider to be "Western" thought and endeavors to recover forgotten forms of social and political order that gesture toward new, hopeful possibilities for the future.

Author: David Graeber
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/10/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781250321879

About the Author
David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, among many other books, and the coauthor, with David Wengrow, of the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. He was an iconic thinker and a renowned activist, and his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died in 2020.

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