📗 Libro en inglés PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT, OR THE REAL LIBERTALIA

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 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 k