Due to its broad scope and sometimes (very bold, but thought-provoking) theses, this book is intellectal fun.
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Due to its broad scope and sometimes (very bold, but thought-provoking) theses, this book is intellectal fun. Here's part of an excursus to the philosophy of the social sciences (and the humanities). I won't subscribe to the taste thing, though.
Graeber/Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021.
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Due to its broad scope and sometimes (very bold, but thought-provoking) theses, this book is intellectal fun. Here's part of an excursus to the philosophy of the social sciences (and the humanities). I won't subscribe to the taste thing, though.
Graeber/Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021.
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@DejahEntendu And rightly so, if you ask me!
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@DejahEntendu And rightly so, if you ask me!
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me too, but I've started a Graeber book after #TheDawnOfEverything and I find I'm missing the other David, I liked the Dawn better, so far
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me too, but I've started a Graeber book after #TheDawnOfEverything and I find I'm missing the other David, I liked the Dawn better, so far@punishmenthurts @DejahEntendu Which one? I guess his other works are more directly about anarchism.
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@punishmenthurts @DejahEntendu Which one? I guess his other works are more directly about anarchism.
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I've only made it a third of the way into Debt, the First 5,000 Years. I'm just finding it a depressing slog. I just tried again a week or two ago and I can't seem to care about economics enough to face the awful truths in it. -
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I've only made it a third of the way into Debt, the First 5,000 Years. I'm just finding it a depressing slog. I just tried again a week or two ago and I can't seem to care about economics enough to face the awful truths in it.I love anthropology, and I studied economics in college. Debt definitely made me think hard about the Chicago School of economics I was taught in college. I don't necessarily think that all of his thoughts were accurate, but I loved the concept he had about how people moved from what we call a barter economy now (which he says is a bad descriptor) to using money. Good stuff, but kind of a slog...
