History

The 2026 Holberg Prize goes to the historian Lyndal Roper

Regius Professor of History at Oxford, Roper was honoured for her work on witch hunts, the German Peasants' War and Luther.

Harari's graphic Sapiens series continues in November with a fourth volume

'The Age of Revolutions', the next volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, is out in November. The third book in his children's series Unstoppable Us appeared in February.

Yuval Noah Harari

This Day in Philosophy — 20 August: the death of Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, one of the three great figures of German idealism, died at Bad Ragaz in Switzerland on 20 August 1854. He had taken over Hegel's chair in Berlin.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

This Day in Philosophy — 19 August: the death of Blaise Pascal

The mathematician, physicist and thinker Blaise Pascal died on 19 August 1662 at the age of thirty-nine. What survived was the notes for an unfinished book: the Pensées.

This Day in Philosophy — 15 August: the death of Ibn Hazm

Ibn Hazm, the sharpest pen of al-Andalus, died near Seville on 15 August 1064. He was the author both of a book about love and of a severe defence of logic.

This Day in Philosophy — 10 August: the birth of Jean-François Lyotard

The French philosopher who defined 'the postmodern condition' and announced the end of grand narratives was born on 10 August 1924.

This Day in Philosophy — 6 August: the death of Theodor Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno, the best-known figure of the Frankfurt School, died in Switzerland on 6 August 1969. Nicolas Malebranche was born on the same date in 1638.

This Day in Philosophy — 5 August: the death of Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels died in London on 5 August 1895. Marx's close collaborator was decisive in the spread of historical materialism.