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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates
Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between
Viking Adult
November 2009
On Sale: October 20, 2009
224 pages ISBN: 0670020834 EAN: 9780670020836 Hardcover
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The new book by the bestselling authors of Plato and a
Platypus Walk Into a Bar is a hilarious take on the
philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality and
immortality. That is, Death. The authors pry open the coffin
lid on this one, looking at the Big D and also its prequel,
Life, and its sequel, the Hereafter. Philosophers such as
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre have been
wrestling with the meaning of death for as long as they have
been wrestling with the meaning of life. Fortunately,
humorists have been keeping pace with the major thinkers by
creating gags about dying. Death's funny that way-it gets
everybody's attention. Death has gotten a bad rap. It's time to take a closer look
at what the Deep Thinkers have to say on the subject, and
there are no better guides than Cathcart and Klein.
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