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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

English

By (author): David Graeber

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh

The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land.

In this jewel of a book, Graeber offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice by Western revolutionary regimes a century later.

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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 157g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jan 2024
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781802061567

About David Graeber

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 5000 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 Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on 2 September 2020.

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