Noga Arikha is a historian of ideas and philosopher, and Senior Expert at the European University Institute, Florence. Her books include The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind and Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours.

“Noga Arikha presents a wonderfully three-dimensional portrait of Franz Boas: family man, secular German Jew, cosmopolitan polymath, scientific anti-racist, a model of empathy and tolerance, and a beacon of light in challenging times.”—Adam Kuper, author of The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions“Noga Arikha successfully depicts the life, work, thought, and influence of Franz Boas, the towering figure who shaped the development of modern American anthropology. She perceptively stresses his lifelong battle against racism, ethnocentrism, and eugenics, and for freedom of thought.”—Herbert S. Lewis, author of Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology

Noga Arikha is a historian of ideas and philosopher, and Senior Expert at the European University Institute, Florence. Her books include The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind and Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours.

“Noga Arikha presents a wonderfully three-dimensional portrait of Franz Boas: family man, secular German Jew, cosmopolitan polymath, scientific anti-racist, a model of empathy and tolerance, and a beacon of light in challenging times.”—Adam Kuper, author of The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions“Noga Arikha successfully depicts the life, work, thought, and influence of Franz Boas, the towering figure who shaped the development of modern American anthropology. She perceptively stresses his lifelong battle against racism, ethnocentrism, and eugenics, and for freedom of thought.”—Herbert S. Lewis, author of Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology

Noga Arikha is a historian of ideas and philosopher, and Senior Expert at the European University Institute, Florence. Her books include The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind and Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours.

“Noga Arikha presents a wonderfully three-dimensional portrait of Franz Boas: family man, secular German Jew, cosmopolitan polymath, scientific anti-racist, a model of empathy and tolerance, and a beacon of light in challenging times.”—Adam Kuper, author of The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions“Noga Arikha successfully depicts the life, work, thought, and influence of Franz Boas, the towering figure who shaped the development of modern American anthropology. She perceptively stresses his lifelong battle against racism, ethnocentrism, and eugenics, and for freedom of thought.”—Herbert S. Lewis, author of Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology