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The number of references are not an indication of the quality of a work. Adam Smith wrote a whole book on The Theory of Moral Sentiments but in Debt, Graeber in
by unmole 4y ago
The number of references are not an indication of the quality of a work. Adam Smith wrote a whole book on The Theory of Moral Sentiments but in Debt, Graeber invents Adam Smith's morality whole cloth.
I have no intention of reading Dawn of Everything but reviewers have noticed references that say the opposite of what the authors claim they say.
- abdullahkhalids 4y agoI am aware that there are problems with the books, even some serious ones. But I find that hardly surprising from a book that references a 1000 other scholarly works. But the reason you can critique the book effectively is because he references where his claims originate from. In the language of this essay [1], Graeber's work is legible, Harari's not at all. [1] https://acesounderglass.com/2022/02/07/epistemic-legibility/ https://acesounderglass.com/2022/02/07/epistemic-legibility/