Israeli historian, philosopher, and author (born 1976)
Yuval Noah Harari
Harari in 2017
Born
(1976-02-24) 24 February 1976 (age 48)
Kiryat Atta, Israel
Known for
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2015) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018)
Spouse
Itzik Yahav
Academic background
Alma mater
Hebrew University (BA)
Jesus College, Oxford (DPhil)
Thesis
History and I: War and the Relations between History and Personal Identity in Renaissance Military Memoirs, c. 1450–1600 (2002)
Doctoral advisor
Steven Gunn
Academic work
Discipline
Big History Social philosophy
Institutions
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Website
Official website
Signature
Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי[juˈvalˈnoaχhaˈʁaʁi]; born 1976)[1] is an Israeli author, public intellectual,[2][3][4] historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). His writings examine free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, and suffering.
Harari writes about a "cognitive revolution" that supposedly occurred roughly 70,000 years ago when Homo sapiens supplanted the rival Neanderthals and other species of the genus Homo, developed language skills and structured societies, and ascended as apex predators, aided by the agricultural revolution and accelerated by the scientific revolution, which have allowed humans to approach near mastery over their environment. His books also examine the possible consequences of a futuristic biotechnological world in which intelligent biological organisms are surpassed by their own creations; he has said, "Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so".[5]
In Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Harari surveys human history from the evolutionary emergence of Homo sapiens to 21st-century political and technological revolutions. The book is based on his lectures to an undergraduate world history class, although outside of popular discourse his work has been met with a generally negative or mixed scholarly reception.
^ abYuval Harari official website
^Parker, Ian (10 February 2020). "Yuval Noah Harari's History of Everyone, Ever". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 11 February 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
^Anthony, Andrew (5 August 2018). "Yuval Noah Harari: 'The idea of free information is extremely dangerous'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
^Lawton, Graham (17 August 2018). "Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists". New Scientist. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
^"Yuval Noah Harari: Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so". The Observer. 19 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
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