Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Harari (2017)

Yuval Noah Harari (born February 24, 1976 in Kiryat Ata , Haifa District ) is an Israeli historian . He has been teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2005 and has emerged with research on military history and universal historical theses . His popular science monograph A Brief History of Mankind became an international bestseller. The future-oriented follow-up publication Homo Deus - A Story of Tomorrow and the 21 lessons for the 21st century , which are geared towards the present, also reached a wide readership in numerous translations. Harari, who is valued and welcomed by top international politicians as a social analyst and thought leader, regularly writes columns for the daily Haaretz .

Live and act

Harari studied history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1993 to 1998 and initially specialized in the history of the military in the Middle Ages. He received his PhD then at Jesus College of the University of Oxford under the supervision of Steven J. Gunn. Harari was there in 2002 his doctoral degree ( Ph.D. ) with the work History and I. War and the relations between History and Personal Identity in Renaissance Military Memoirs, c. 1450–1600 (in German: "History and I. War and the relationships between history and personal identity in memoirs of the military of the Renaissance"). Since then he has published various military historical studies on different epochs and approaches. 2003 Harari was a post-doctoral researcher Yad Hanadiv Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has taught since of 2005.

For some time he has been concerned with world history and macro- historical processes . His book A Brief History of Mankind gives an overview of the development of mankind from its prehistoric beginnings to the present day. The Hebrew-language original edition has become a bestseller in Israel and was the first to make Harari known there. His lectures on world history were viewed ten thousand times on YouTube and he became the author of a fortnightly column in the Israeli daily Haaretz . Since then, the book has been successful in English and German editions and has now been translated into almost 50 languages. In November 2012, Harari and 25 other young scientists were elected to the newly founded Israel Academy of Sciences , which aims to support young researchers from Israel.

Harari lives with his husband in the moshav Mesilat Zion near Bet Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. He lives vegan and has commented on the misery of domesticated animals several times in books and articles . In a 2015 article in the Guardian , he called industrialized factory farming one of the most serious crimes in human history and the fate of industrially reared animals one of the most pressing ethical questions of our time.

In the course of the digital revolution and biotechnological development, Harari expects radical changes in the way people exist. Within 20 to 30 years, for example, the smartphone will become a kind of second brain for people that will know what we feel, want and think and that will determine our everyday and life decisions. Would from people, so quotes Der Spiegel Harari, "hackable animals" - animals you chop can.

In view of the constantly shifting center of the epidemic, Harari pleads for increased international cooperation in the corona crisis . “As long as the virus spreads in other areas, we are also in danger - it can and will return to us. When we help other countries, we don't do it out of pity. But out of self-interest. ”Harari also sees dealing with the pandemic in everyday life as a“ huge social experiment ”with permanent potential for change. Online courses that have only been planned at universities for years have been set up within weeks under Corona conditions; and one will not simply go back to the starting point after the crisis. Harari warns against surveillance measures to contain the corona: "As soon as the population has got used to the fact that there are certain surveillance measures, the government no longer has any reason not to use them. Then the crisis instrument becomes normal. "

With his husband Itzig Yahav, Harari runs a company with 12 employees in Tel Aviv , the Yhav-Harari Group Ltd. According to Spiegel , the company is primarily concerned with the diverse media preparation and diversification of Harari's successful publications. Another company founded by Yahav and Hararis under the name Sapiensship is intended to contribute as a social enterprise, according to Der Spiegel , to "solving the problems of this world."

Yuval Harari reports that meditation changed his life and influenced his work.

reception

With his three bestseller works A Brief History of Mankind and Homo Deus - A History of Tomorrow and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Der Spiegel writes of "almost 1,600 pages of world knowledge" in German - Harari has made a name for himself and is meanwhile drawn in internationally as a source of ideas or advisors to top politicians. Barack Obama values ​​him as a source of inspiration; Angela Merkel , Emmanuel Macron and Sebastian Kurz met him to exchange ideas.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

A list of Harari's publications can be found on his website.

  • The Military Role of the Frankish Turcopoles. A reassessment. In: Mediterranean Historical Review . Vol. 12, 1997, pp. 75-116.
  • Renaissance Military Memoirs. War, History and Identity, 1450-1600. Boydell & Brewer , Woodbridge 2004. (Book version of the dissertation)
  • Martial illusions. War and Disillusionment in Twentieth-Century and Renaissance Military Memoirs. In: Journal of Military History . Vol. 69, 2005, pp. 43-72.
  • Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2007.
  • Military memoirs. A Historical Overview of the Genre from the Middle Ages to the Late Modern Era. In: Was in History. Vol. 14, 2007, pp. 289-309.
  • The Concept of 'Decisive Battles' in World History. In: The Journal of World History. Vol. 18, 2007, pp. 251-266.
  • The Ultimate Experience. Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000. Palgrave-Macmillan, Houndmills 2008.
  • Combat flow. Military, Political and Ethical Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being in War. In: Review of General Psychology. Vol. 12, 2008, pp. 253-264.
  • Armchairs, Coffee and Authority. Eye-Witnesses and Flesh-Witnesses Speak about War, 1100-2000. In: The Journal of Military History. Vol. 74, 2010, pp. 53-78.
  • A brief history of mankind . Translation from English by Jürgen Neubauer. DVA, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04595-9 . (Published in 2011 in Israel, see the Hebrew-language Wikipedia article קיצור תולדות האנושות )
  • Homo Deus - A story of tomorrow . Translation from English by Andreas Wirthensohn. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70401-7 .
  • 21 lessons for the 21st century . Translation from English by Andreas Wirthensohn. CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72778-8 .
  • Princes in the crosshairs. Translation from English by Andreas Wirthensohn. CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-75037-3 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yuval Harari - About Yuval Harari. In: www.ynharari.com. Retrieved December 2, 2016 .
  2. ↑ For the course, see the curriculum vitae on his website.
  3. ↑ About him the introduction on the website of the University of Oxford.
  4. ^ A Brief History of Humankind , summary in lecture form by Coursera (English).
  5. ↑ See, for example, the following column: There is One Thing More Lucrative than War: Peace. In: Haaretz from July 20, 2012.
  6. ↑ About Yuval Noah Harari. In: YNHarari.com .
  7. ^ 10 Hebrew University Faculty Members Inducted to New Young Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Press release from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on November 22, 2012.
  8. ↑ So the opening credits to the conversation at Haaretz.
  9. ↑ Carole Cadwalladr: Yuval Noah Harari: The age of the cyborg has begun - and the consequences cannot be known . In: The Guardian . July 5, 2015, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Yuval Noah Harari: A Brief History of Humanity. DVA, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04595-9 .
  11. ↑ Yuval Noah Harari: Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history . In: The Guardian . September 25, 2015, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 1, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 13, March 21, 2020, p. 111 f.
  13. ↑ Yuval Noah Harari in an interview with Maria Sterkl: We have to help out of self-interest. In: Zeit Online , April 7, 2020; accessed on April 19, 2020.
  14. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 13, March 21, 2020, p. 113 f.
  15. ↑ Ezra Klein: Yuval Harari, author of Sapiens, on how meditation made him a better historian. February 28, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Carole Cadwalladr: Yuval Noah Harari: The age of the cyborg has begun - and the consequences cannot be known . In: The Observer . July 5, 2015, ISSN  0029-7712 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 19, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 13, March 21, 2020, p. 110.
  18. ↑ JBZ team selected the top ten future literature 2017 . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . November 29, 2017 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Publications on his university homepage (English).
personal data
SURNAME Harari, Yuval Noah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harari, Yuval; Harari, YN
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa