Heidegger and A Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates
Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explain Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in between
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Publisher:
New York : - Viking
Pages:
245
ISBN:
0670020834, 9780670020836
Language:
English
Contents:
Surely there must be some mistake
Just let your angst be your umbrella
Death? the way to go!
Heidegger-dog, ziggity-boom, what you do to me
Spin your own immortality
The eternal now
Plato, the godfather of soul
Heaven, a landscape to die for
Tunnel vision
The original knock-knock joke
Beating death to the punch
Immortality through not dying
The end.
Just let your angst be your umbrella
Death? the way to go!
Heidegger-dog, ziggity-boom, what you do to me
Spin your own immortality
The eternal now
Plato, the godfather of soul
Heaven, a landscape to die for
Tunnel vision
The original knock-knock joke
Beating death to the punch
Immortality through not dying
The end.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236) and index.
Statement of responsibility:
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Physical description:
viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Add a CommentA light look at life and death. Funny.
From the authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar comes yet another philosophical quest, or jest rather. With majors in philosophy from Harvard, the authors know their subject area but their real skill lies in employing jokes, cartoons and light-hearted dialogue to illuminate various thinkers’ (and some comics’) approach to the big, heavy question that confronts us all- our own mortality. Recognizing that “humour allows us to express our fears about death while defusing anxiety” the authors succinctly deliver the in-a-nutshell version – from the ancient Greeks to the 20th Century existentialists. An accompanying index and notes rounds out the simple but profound offering. For anyone who claims they can’t understand philosophy.