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Also by Thomas Cathcart:

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates, November 2009
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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, May 2007
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Also by Daniel Klein:

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates, November 2009
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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, May 2007
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PLATO AND A PLATYPUS WALK INTO A BAR
By: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Abrams Books
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
208 pages
ISBN: 081091493X
EAN: 9780810914933
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Here’s a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It’s Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what it’s like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finally—it all makes sense!

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