Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

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UPC:
9780810914933
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
5/1/2007
Author:
Thomas Cathcart;Daniel Klein
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Heres a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. Its 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 its 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. Finallyit all makes sense!

I laughed, I learned, I loved it! Roy Blount Jr.