The graphic novel of the bestselling book by Germany’s most famous living philosopher, for readers of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder.
WER BIN ICH – UND WENN JA, WIE VIELE? DIE GRAPHIC NOVEL
(Who Am I – And If Yes, How Many? The Graphic Novel)
by Richard David Precht & Martin Möller
illustrated by Jörg Hartmann
Goldmann/PRH Germany, Septembre 2024
Precht’s « Who Am I – And If Yes, How Many? » introduced millions of readers to the big philosophical questions of our time, making him one of Germany’s most famous authors. A good fifteen years later, it is being published again – this time as a graphic novel. Illustrated by Jörg Hartmann, it gives us Precht’s wisdom inside a modern aesthetic. Everything we know about ourselves from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy is contained within its pages – creating a unique path through the plainly mind-boggling amount of information out there about what it means to be human.
Richard David Precht, born in 1964, is a philosopher, journalist, and author, and one of the most distinguished intellectuals in the German-speaking countries. He is an honorary professor of philosophy and aesthetics at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Ever since his sensational success with Who Am I – And If Yes, How Many?, his books about philosophy and society have been consistent bestsellers, and they have been translated into 40 languages. Since 2012 he has presented the philosophy programme Precht on the TV channel ZDF, and he discusses social, political and philosophical issues with Markus Lanz on the weekly hit podcast Lanz & Precht.
DON’T PUSH THE BUTTON
On his twelfth birthday, Jackson « Jax » Freeman arrives at Chicago’s Union Station alone, carrying nothing but the baggage of a scandal back in his hometown. He’s been sent away from home to live with relatives he barely knows. But even worse are the strangers who accost him at the train station, including a food vendor who throws dust in his face and a conductor who tries to steal his skin.
Luna rides a battered old broom that keeps crashing itself into the school pond. She has a witch’s hat and wand and sometimes she’s quite good at magic, but she isn’t completely sure that she’s a real witch. She doesn’t have a familiar for one thing, and she doesn’t know where she came from-only that she was found by three witches who she now calls her aunts. When she swaps her moonstone ring for an Australian boobook owl in the Lost Forest, the mysterious bird seller makes her promise to keep the bird hidden for as long as she can. This is not easy when you live with very inquisitive aunts. And it’s not easy when you find out that the fearsome Madame Valadon, the Best Witch in Paris, is missing her boobook owl and she’s sure that Luna knows something about it.
Thirteen-year-old Shai is an expert problem-solver. There’s never been something they couldn’t research and figure out on their own. But there’s one thing Shai hasn’t been able to logic their way through: picking at the hair on their arms.