The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the Worl..., David Graeber
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the Worl..., David Graeber
List: $26.99 | Sale: $18.89
Club: $13.49

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .
Essays

Author: David Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky

Narrator: Jacques Servin, Savitri D

Unabridged: 13 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/12/2024


Synopsis

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 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.

About David Graeber

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 others books, and coauthor with David Wengrow of the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. An iconic thinker and a renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin (the Conspiracy is Capitalism) on January 31, 2025

Social Imagination 101… Preamble: --In my last years of undergraduate studies, I realized I still couldn’t even formulate coherent questions about the world. So, I finally took responsibility for my own education and started exploring nonfiction. …Thus, I was motivated by distress. Graeber (RIP) brou......more

Goodreads review by Wick on January 18, 2025

I've written lengthy reviews of Graeber's other masterpiece works so I'll spare the details here. This is a great collection of his essays that pair nicely with his other books. If you're new to Graeber, don't start here. If you've read his other stuff, you will definitely enjoy this. What an amazin......more

Goodreads review by Michael on November 15, 2024

This is a collection of essays by the late David Graeber. He was a radical anthropologist, anarchist and activist. His books "Debt", "The Utopia of Rules", " Bullshit Jobs" and "The Dawn of Everything" were all driven by a conviction that our current society was contingent. There were different ways......more

Goodreads review by Logan on April 30, 2024

Are you even reading this review if you do not know who Graeber is? If so, you have made a weird choice. This book is a posthumous collection of Graeber's work: mostly essays and articles but one interview. While there is some thematic grouping, the essays vary in tone, topic, and density. The ideolo......more

Goodreads review by Derrick on March 19, 2025

Graeber reads like a prophet. Some of clearest contemporary articulations of the possibilities of a better world. RIP to one of the great thinkers of the 21st Century S/O to Collin for the great b-day present......more