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Dlouhé tisíce let jsme údajně žili v absolutně rovnostářských kmenech – než jsme vynalezli zemědělství a s ním také bohatství a chudobu, byrokracii a krutovládce. Učitelé dějepisu i autoři bestsellerů o historii tento jednoduchý příběh milují. Profesoři David Graeber a David Wengrow nyní však na spoustě příkladů dokládají, že jde o pouhý výmysl. A že skutečnost byla nesrovnatelně zajímavější a rozmanitější, než nás učili ve školních lavicích. Kniha Úsvit všeho stojí na přesvědčivých, ale dosud často opomíjených faktech z oblasti archeologie, historie a kulturní antropologie. Okamžitě se v těchto oborech stala světovou událostí a vyvolala diskuse, které budou probíhat ještě dlouhá léta.

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Úplne nový a revolučný pohľad na evolúciu ľudstva, ktorý našim predkom vracia dlho popieranú ľudskosť. Na základe najnovších výskumov antropológ David Graeber a archeológ David Wengrow radikálne prehodnotili dejiny človeka od samých počiatkov v časoch lovcov a zberačov, cez vznik poľnohospodárstva, prvých miest a štátov. Dokazujú, že naši predkovia boli inteligentní ľudia, ktorí sa nehnali len za potravou ani sa bezhlavo navzájom nezabíjali.Ako teda trávili čas? Akí boli, čo robili, ako fungovali dávnoveké spoločnosti, dodnes považované za primitívne a jednoduché, hoci najnovšie poznatky ukazujú, že to tak nebolo?Počiatok všetkéhoje dôkladná štúdia dvoch naslovovzatých odborníkov a nadšencov, ktorí našli odpovede na všetky tieto otázky.

'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.

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we begin to see what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action.

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A revised and updated edition of the international bestseller. Graeber, one of the early organisers of Occupy Wall Street and a well regarded academic, presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom; he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods, long before the invention of cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we first see a society divided between debtors and creditors.

Anarchismus coby politická filosofie je všude na vzestupu- všude, kromě akademické půdy. Anarchisté opakovaně žádají antropology o radu, jak reorganizovat společnost na více rovnostářskou a méně odcizující. Antropologové, ve strachu, že budou nařčeni z romantismu, odpovídají mlčením... Ale co kdyby nemlčeli? Tento pamflet se zamýšlí nad tím, jak by asi zněla odpověď, a zkoumá možné důsledky propojení antropologie s anarchismem. David Graeber tu vyzývá čtenáře, aby si představili disciplínu existující zatím pouze v rovině pravděpodobnosti: anarchistickou antropologii.

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