10. David Graeber & David Wengrow "The Dawn of Everything" critique: The Wisdom of Kandiaronk
September 30, 2021
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as posted by the channelA review of “The Wisdom of Kandiaronk, The Indigenous Critique, the Myth of Progress and the Birth of the Left” from David Graeber & David Wengrow’s upcoming book The Dawn of Everything (and which in the book turned out to be Chapter 2: “Wicked Liberty: The Indigenous Critique and the Myth of Progress”)
In this chapter Graeber & Wengrow argue that:
The European Enlightenment was heavily influenced by Native American critiques of European culture.
That European intellectuals reacted against this by developing the theory of “stages of human progress” from egalitarian hunter-gatherers to pastoralists to farmers to market civilization.
That Jean-Jacques Rousseau synthesized the American critique and the stages of progress theory into a seemingly egalitarian critique of European social hierarchies which resigns to accept hierarchy as the price of civilization.
That this synthesis was the birth of the “intellectual left”.
That the concept of human equality has no meaning and should be discarded.
Graeber & Wengrow 2019, "La Sagesse de Kandiaronk, la critique indigène, la mythe du progrès et la naissance de la gauche", chapter from The Dawn of Everything (2021), published in French in Journal du MAUSS
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