Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Th..., Thomas Cathcart
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Th..., Thomas Cathcart
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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, Daniel Klein

Narrator: Thomas Cathcart

Unabridged: 4 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/20/2009


Synopsis

From the authors of the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . ., a new book on the meaning of death (and life, too).

About The Author

Thomas Cathcart is the internationally bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates with his friend Daniel Klein. He studied philosophy at Harvard and has spent most of his career in health care. Cathcart lives in New York City.Daniel Klein, a graduate of Harvard, has written five novels and two humor books and cowritten or ghost-written twelve nonfiction books. He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he raised his half-Jewish daughter with television correspondent Freke Vuijst.


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