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Also by Daniel Klein:

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates, November 2009
Hardcover
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, May 2007
Hardcover

Also by Thomas Cathcart:

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates, November 2009
Hardcover
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, May 2007
Hardcover

HEIDEGGER AND A HIPPO WALK THROUGH THOSE PEARLY GATES
By: Daniel Klein, Thomas Cathcart

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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Non-Fiction

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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