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Heidegger and a hippo : walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explain life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between / by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cathcart, Thomas, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death.
- Future life.
- Immortality.
- Death--Humor.
- Future life--Humor.
- Immortality--Humor.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2009.
- Summary:
- Explores death and the afterlife from lighthearted philosophical, theological, and psychological perspectives that consider that death may not be such a pessimism-inducing state.
- Contents:
- Surely there must be some mistake
- Just let your angst be your umbrella
- Death? the way to go!
- Heidegger-dog, ziggity-boom, what you do to me
- Spin your own immortality
- The eternal now
- Plato, the godfather of soul
- Heaven, a landscape to die for
- Tunnel vision
- The original knock-knock joke
- Beating death to the punch
- Immortality through not dying
- The end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780670020836
- 0670020834
- OCLC:
- 318411616
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