Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of David Graeber’s work from the Gramscian proposal to read Marx in search of «the leitmotif, the rhythm of developing thought, must be more important than single random statements and detached aphorisms» (Gramsci 1949, 77). Following this approach, I reflect on Graeber’s work as an attempt to develop anthropology as an art of the possible and a project of reconstruction, understanding and proposal of social, political and conceptual alternatives. To do so, I focus on the role that the categories of imagination and estrangement played in his proposal of anthropology as an antidote to the neoliberal project of eliminating alternatives