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21 de ene. de 2023 · Review. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia. By David Graeber FSG: 208 pages, $27 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees ...
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 ...
In David Graeber’s slim posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and influenced European Enlightenment thinking.Specifically, he describes how the pirate “kingdoms” of 18th-century Madagascar brought together the proto-democratic self-government of pirate ships with the uniquely inclusive cultural ...
Decolonising the Enlightenment Graeber also reprises some of the logic of his argument about Kandiaronk’s influence on the Enlightenment via a look at the influence of A General History of the Pyrates, published in 1724 under the name of Captain Johnson, which he thinks was probably a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe.
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia has that kind of narrative that continues to surprise, befitting its role in unveiling the hidden treasure behind the romanticization and fantasies of pirates. And more than anything, Graeber shows that even within the world of the pirates, it is possible to build a hopeful, egalitarian society where ...
25 de ene. de 2024 · Pirate Enlightenment playfully dismantles the central myths of the Enlightenment. In their place comes a story about the magic, sea battles, purloined princesses, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms, fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners and devil worship that lie at the origins of modern freedom. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
