Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Th..., Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Th..., Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates
Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between

Author: Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

Narrator: Grover Gardner and Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 4 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy


Synopsis

This book is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality and immortalitythat 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. Deaths funny that way: it gets everybodys attention.

Reviews

Todtriebe - that sums it up. Q: “Look, making you happy is out of the question, but I can give you a compelling narrative for your misery.” (c) Q: JUST DO IT It was exactly these dilemmas that led those latter-day existentialists, the merchandisers at the Nike Corporation, to coin their trademark leap of......more

3.5/5 Unlike d authors' famous "Plato and Platypus walk into a bar", this book is largely philosophy with a few jokes n cartoons. And the jokes n philosophy both were better here. The book talks of death, meaning of life, afterlife, immortality (both conceptual n physical). The authors have used d id......more

Goodreads review by Amitha

Interesting and much-required perspectives about life/death, and what better way to understand death than with unrelenting humour! The book explores the view of Ernest Becker that we possess a denial of death, and that our coping mechanism is the creation of 'immortality systems', Freud's Todtriebe(......more

Mua quyển này và đọc xong rồi mới thấy giá trị của 2 cuốn Cộng hòa và Chính trị luận mà mình đang đọc dang dở :( Đại khái là thà đọc mấy đoạn đối thoại khô như ngói ấy còn hơn là đọc mấy mẩu truyện cười không hề có một chút xíu kích thích như thế này huhuhu.......more

Goodreads review by Julius

Thomas Cathcart estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Harvard, y posteriormente Teología en diversos estamentos. Ha sido funcionario de prisiones, ha trabajado como director de operaciones en un hospital y en la reinserción de drogadictos. Es conocido por una serie de libros escritos junto a Daniel......more