# The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays - Hardcover

by **David Graeber** (Author), **Nika Dubrovsky** (Editor), **Rebecca Solnit** (Foreword by)

**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.

### Author Biography

**David Graeber** was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of _Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia_; _Debt: The First 5,000 Years_; and _Bullshit Jobs_, among many others books, and the coauthor with David Wengrow of _The Dawn of Everything_, a _New York Times_ bestseller. An iconic thinker and a renowned activist, he died in 2020.

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 1.25 x 9.22 x 6.16 IN

**Publication Date:** November 12, 2024

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