{"product_id":"the-ultimate-hidden-truth-of-the-world-essays-9780374610227","title":"The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eDebt\u003c\/i\u003e and the breakout \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything \u003c\/i\u003e(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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .\u003c\/i\u003e, edited and with an introduction by Nika Dubrovsky 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Graeber \u003c\/b\u003ewas a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDebt: The First 5,000 Years\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBullshit Jobs\u003c\/i\u003e, among many others books, and the coauthor with David Wengrow of \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller. An iconic thinker and a renowned activist, he died in 2020.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874976633106,"sku":"9780374610227","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_09ca3464-81ca-4733-80dd-5e18291ab7ac.jpg?v=1762335097","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ultimate-hidden-truth-of-the-world-essays-9780374610227","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}