Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between Tapa dura - 2009

de Thomas Cathcart; Daniel Klein

From the authorsof the bestsellingPlato and aPlatypus Walkinto a Bar, anuproarious newbook on themeaning of death(and life, too)

The new book by the bestselling authors of Plato and a PlatypusWalk Into a Bar is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology,and psychology of mortality and immortality. That is, Death. Theauthors pry open the coffin lid on this one, looking at the Big Dand also its prequel, Life, and its sequel, the Hereafter.Philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, andSartre have been wrestling with the meaning of death for as longas they have been wrestling with the meaning of life. Fortunately,humorists have been keeping pace with the major thinkers bycreating gags about dying. Death's funny that way-it gets everybody'sattention.

Death has gotten a bad rap. It's time to take a closer look atwhat the Deep Thinkers have to say on the subject, and there areno better guides than Cathcart and Klein.