Dr. Noga Arikha

Noga Arikha is a historian of ideas and philosopher, an Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute and Honorary Fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings (London), and a Research Associate at the Institut Jean Nicod (Paris).

Her first book, Passions and Tempers; A History of the Humours (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017), was a New York Times Review Editor’s Choice and a Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Book. The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind is forthcoming from Basic Books (US and UK) in April 2022. The author of numerous essays, she is at work on a biography of Franz Boas for Yale University Press. After years in London, New York and Paris, she is now based in Florence.

Her research aims on fostering dialogues between neuroscientists and psychologists researching the embodied sense of self with clinicians, social scientists, humanists and artists. Her current project on Franz Boas widens her remit to the history of anthropology as a form of comparative psychology, analysing historically situated definitions of nature and culture.

Noga Arikha is member of the CAS Research Group "Persuading under Uncertainty: Challenges and Norms of Science Communication" of Prof. Dr. Ophelia Deroy and a Visiting Fellow at CAS in November and December 2021.