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Historian and author Yuval Harari, one of the most influential
intellectuals of our time, is our guest on the second English-language
episode of "Alles gesagt?" ("Nuff Said?"), ZEIT's never-ending podcast.
Harari's book, "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", was originally
published in Hebrew in 2011 and is based on a series of 20 lectures from
an undergraduate world history class he had taught. It has sold over 12
million copies and was in the top three of The New York Times bestseller
list for 96 consecutive weeks. Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg
and Angela Merkel, among others, are all admirers of Harari's work. In
2016 he wrote "Homo Deus", this time focussing on the future of
humankind; his third book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, was
published in 2018. Both have become international bestsellers. This week
his latest book will be released: the graphic novel "Sapiens – The Birth
of Humankind".
The hosts of "Alles gesagt?", Jochen Wegner and Christoph Amend (both
based in Berlin) met with Yuval Harari, who lives in Tel Aviv, via video
call on October 14th. (The session was also streamed live on ZEIT
ONLINE.)
Harari was born in 1975 near Haifa and studied in Jerusalem; he finished
his PhD in Oxford with a focus on medieval military history and wrote
his dissertation on "renaissance military memoirs of noblemen".
In this episode of our podcast Harari talks about a wide range of topics
from religion to politics, Covid-19 to artificial intelligence; he
describes spending weeks in a silent retreat, visiting a secret unit at
Google and what it takes to become a bestseller writer. We hear what it
was like growing up in a conservative Israeli family and realising he
was gay at the age of 21, and how this personal experience has
influenced the way he thinks about the world, human beings and history.
At the end of this episode, Harari fact-checks key scenes of the show
Game of Thrones and finally, after three hours and 44 minutes, he has
nothing left to say. Because at "Alles gesagt?" the conversation is only
over when the guest says it's over.
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