Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between
We won't spoil the title joke by providing its punch line, but we will tell you that Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein's Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through the Pearly Gates will leave you not just amused, but also enlightened. Retentive booksellers will remember that Cathcart and Klein are the...
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We won't spoil the title joke by providing its punch line, but we will tell you that Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein's Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through the Pearly Gates will leave you not just amused, but also enlightened. Retentive booksellers will remember that Cathcart and Klein are the philosopher quipsters who served up Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar and Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington. For every student who ever clock-watched his or her way through a philosophy class; now in rib-tickling, consciousness-raising paperback.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143118251 (0143118250)
Publish date: October 26th 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
OK - other people who know less about the subject might get more out of it than it did. A lot of the jokes were pretty funny.
I'm one of those people who like really dry nonfiction books; I'd be more than happy with a book of bullet points of statistics and theories. This book is not at all like that and so although at times I wanted more facts and a more intellectual approach to the subject of death I got the appeal. It...
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