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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.
24 de ene. de 2023 · “Pirate Enlightenment,” a slim, feisty book by the late anthropologist and political activist David Graeber, was sparked by field research he conducted in Madagascar more than 30 years ago.
Pirate Enlightenment is, as the author writes, a provocation--but also an inspiration; and a great piece of story-telling." -- Rosemary A. Joyce, Interim Director of Global, International, and Area Studies, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
24 de ene. de 2023 · 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 explored in his classic, bestselling works Debt and The Dawn of Everything (written with the archeologist David Wengrow). Graeber explores how the proto-democratic practices of the Zana ...
24 de ene. de 2023 · 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).
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia David Graeber. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-61019-7
26 de ene. de 2023 · 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.
