Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Graeber, David
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 GhoshThe 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, a period of violent
buccaneering and rollicking legends - 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. For Graeber, Madagascar’s lost
pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment
political thought. In this jewel of a book, he 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, merchants and traders, 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.
Kustantaja: Penguin
Sidosasu: Kovakantinen
ean: 9780241611401
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2023
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