Dr. Yoel Magid, who recently lectured on role- playing and deception in Shakespeare, offers a six-session analysis of the importance of fiction in human history as developed by Yuval Harari in Sapiens, an intellectually surprising, witty and well-written history of humankind. Each week Professor Magid will focus on a different chapter: “The Cognitive Revolution”, “The Agricultural Revolution”, “The Unification of Humankind”, and the “Scientific Revolution”. Copies of Sapiens are available in hardcover, paperback and online. This six-session course will be provided via Zoom from 2 pm to 3:15 pm on Wednesdays, August 5, 12, 19, 26, and September 2 and 9.
Sapiens by Yuval Harari