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

By Thomas Cathcart , Daniel Klein

Book information

Publisher
Abrams Image
Year
2007
ISBN
081091493X, 9780810914933
Open Library ID
OL7997709M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4512453 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
216\216
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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

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