{"product_id":"the-ultimate-hidden-truth-of-the-world","title":"The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\\\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World\u003c\/i\u003e . . ., edited and with an introduction by Nika Dubrovksy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521890238689,"sku":null,"price":769.3,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/9033\/0593\/files\/1057453482274.jpg?v=1764189342","url":"https:\/\/perfectbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ultimate-hidden-truth-of-the-world","provider":"PERFECT BOOK HOUSE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}