Another book about debt and its consequences, like so many others written by economists and other specialists in handling and explaining the so-called complexities that torment our lives?

The answer is no, at least as far as the second part of the question is concerned, which, however, requires a provocative journey through the history of humanity to understand the nature, depth, and quality of a concept that, from a simple moral stance in the coexistence of people, was transformed by hierarchy, the state, money, and violence (in that order), into a burden.

A burden that enslaved, exterminated, and left deep wounds on the body and memory of humanity, but also opened fissures from which, over the last 5,000 years for which we have records, the signs of it continue to be visible.

Signs that are not exhausted in the accounting and literary legacy of past cultures, but are traced in our very language, in the great religious, political, and philosophical texts around the world, often serving as the source of their inspiration.

Signs recognized in the history of uprisings that have rocked, destroying and creating, cultures and peoples, signs that are even responsible for the first use of the word freedom.

This book, at its core, is an epic hymn to freedom and the kind of promises that people must begin to make if they want to emerge from the crisis created by the commodification of social relationships and its morality.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]