The 3 best books by Yuval Noah Harari

That History as an alleged science also has parts of elucubration is confirmed once again by the fact that, precisely a historian like Harari has emerged as one of the most recognized current essayists on the emergence and paths of our civilization. Because Harari moves between certainties, yes, but shakes to obtain new fruits on which to build general consciousness.

Undoubtedly this writer who barely exceeds 40 has been able to hit the key of media transcendence and intellectual consideration since that opening of the Historian by profession who exposes perfectly stitched approaches in a criticism that precisely reviews and speculates for dissemination purposes to contribute a new notion that concerns our beginnings, the origins of the evolution that took us here without ruling out aspects such as chance.

Precisely the arrival to the knowledge housed from different areas that immerse themselves in the origin of our civilization and the disparate complementary aspects of an anthropology understood as a unifying science made Harari one of the most considered scholars in search of the keys to what we were building.

But what has most captivated Harari readers It is its most conclusive part, the one that goes on to consider what evolution and what involution there may be in current thought as the final legacy of so many advances, conflicts, revolutions and even of the philosophy in which the beliefs that try to sustain can be inserted. the most individual spaces of the human being. Harari has already written many books, but there are three that have increased his international fame.

Top 3 Recommended Books by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens. From animals to gods

The title of this book has just been sentenced "a brief history of humanity." The author already deduces from this appendix his intention towards clarification, towards the detail of an ideology that could be deployed in much more extensive studies.

But the question is brushing to get that disclosure made illustrative entertainment. We were recently talking about the book «The last Neanderthal»A novel that addresses those dark days of the last great evolutionary leap of our species. AND Antonio Perez Henares he has written his own saga on the subject.

Sapiens are in fashion and Harari brings the most realistic side with which you can approach your arrival to stay on this planet. The volume is still just another interpretation, but it is precisely Harari's style and ingenuity that makes this work one of the fundamentals for that art of interpretation that every student of the ancient must have as a reference.

Sapiens is the beginning of everything, from him we arrived at the current mix and based on their evolutionary differences our destiny could be scripted. Overcoming seems to be one of the premises, the differential fact that allowed the first Sapiens to prevail over the rest of humanoids and to reach our today and the projections of our tomorrow. Only that this component of improvement is based on aspects that are not always laudable: ambition, desire made sustainable...

All of this does not always match the ideal of happiness that was also making its way as we gained awareness. What we are and what we come to do with this world is directly linked to those protomen who managed to reign on the face of the earth tens of thousands of years ago.

Sapiens. From animals to gods

21 lessons for the XNUMXst century

Without a doubt, the notes outlined in his previous work Sapiens, which spread like wildfire throughout the world, aroused an excessive interest in the importance of that thought in the face of our current state of civilization. The famous challenges we face are based on how capable we can be of parking, to a more reasonable point, our ambition.

Because in general what we want to achieve sometimes points to nothingness, to emptiness, to the glory of inconsequential materialism. And that is a very obvious contradiction for what our destiny could presage when the evolutionary leap of Sapiens was discovered as the power of intelligence against force.

Try to clarify how we are more than what we are. Because in this work a large part of a deception is discovered that many other thinkers already anticipated, from Malthus but also George Orwell. Authors we trust less than an Adam Smith who, like a new messiah, announced that economic prosperity in the hands of ambition was the fairest of systems.

I don't know if it is about criticizing economic liberalism, but at least its shadows, extended over aspects such as post-truth, happiness slogans, double standards, economic imbalances between one world and another within the same world and even the fear instilled to understand that the supposed well-being granted may be at risk.

21 lessons for the XNUMXst century

Homo Deus

Ever since the Greeks introduced us to the demigods, the impossible will of eternity has stood as the greatest vanity of man. The way to immortalize ourselves as new gods is by collecting more goods, succeeding, leaving our mark in an increasingly competitive world. Once again this work starts from the great stir of Sapiens.

As we saw in its section, the detail of "brief history of humanity" with which the work is delimited gave much more. And all the rest are sequels that continue to provide the informative wealth of this inexhaustible author.

In this case we address the future, the end of death and coexistence with intelligences created in our image and likeness, only with an algorithmic projection that will overcome our limitations and end up ruling for us, addressing our will. Talking about the future has always been a tragic point that has finally been overcome in previous studies making impossible balances. In other words, we have always been able to overcome ourselves.

But this time it seems that he may be serious. With work in the hands of automatons endowed with full intelligence that can present themselves as a disruptive element of our evolution. Perhaps creativity and the humanistic, as a differentiating element, are the last refuge...

Homo Deus

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Nexus: A brief history of information networks from the stone age to AI

Harari is not afraid of the most ambitious thought, of blinding lucidity when the focus is placed on the contradictory essence of humanity. Aspiring to a promised eternity that little by little looks more like a mere shadow, understanding the zero reason for almost everything... And yet the thing has its charm. For the remnants of doubts that may remain, for the arrival of that ancient thought that maintains certainties and old servitudes to other types of less rational approaches.

In Nexus, Harari looks at humanity from the broad perspective of history to analyze how information networks have made and unmade our world. Over the last 100.000 years, we sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But, despite all the discoveries, inventions and achievements, we now face an existential crisis: the world is on the brink of ecological collapse, misinformation abounds and we are hurtling towards the age of AI. With all the way forward, why? that we are a self-destructive species?

Drawing on a fascinating array of historical examples, from the Stone Age, through the Bible, to the early modern witch hunts, to Stalinism and Nazism, to the resurgence of populism today, Harari offers us a revealing framework to investigate the complex relationships that exist between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, and wisdom and power.

Examines how different societies and political systems have used information to achieve their goals and impose order, for better and worse. And it raises the urgent choices we face today, when non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

Information is not the active principle of truth; nor a simple weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes.

Unstoppable: Diary of how we conquered the Earth

At this point, evolution may not be a thing to be proud of. It has been demonstrated that ours are not long-term sights. And as the blue planet loses color, the matter of intelligence as the supreme value, ceases to make sense. But there were times when everything pointed well within a natural law that does not go with half measures in terms of selection and dominance...

Did you know that all humans have a superpower? From the savannah of Africa to the polar ice caps of Greenland, humans dominate planet Earth. But how have we achieved it? Lions are stronger than us, dolphins swim better, and we don't have wings!

Through this exciting journey of millions of years, you will discover what this superpower is that makes us unstoppable. Who said that the history of mankind was boring? Dwarfs, giant snakes, the Spirit of the Great Lion, the finger of a girl who lived 50.000 years ago... Discover the mysteries of the origin of humanity and delve into an epic and real adventure: ours, that of all humans.

Unstoppable: Diary of how we conquered the Earth
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