Did pirates and a First Nations chief help kick-start the Enlightenment?
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Did pirates and a First Nations chief help kick-start the Enlightenment?
Cover of “Pirate Englightenment, or the real libertalia” by David Graeber Mention the Enlightenment today and there’s a good chance you’ll find yourself in a debate about its contribution to scientific racism, modern imperialism, exploitation, and genocide. A question not raised as often is whether the Enlightenment ideal of rational individualism was a truly ‘Western’ project. The big idea at the heart of this book, one that Graeber expanded on…
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