Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates : Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between
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Death. The Big D. Giving up the ghost. Buying the farm. The concept has haunted, obsessed, and fascinated humans since the beginning of time, and Big Thinkers from Saint Paul to Schopenhauer, Descartes to Dylan Thomas, Plato to Peggy Lee, have explored everything from angels to zombies and everything in between. Now Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein take us on a full tour of the history of how we approach death.
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Product details
- Hardback | 291 pages
- 142 x 218 x 25mm | 454g
- 05 May 2010
- Thorndike Press
- United States
- English
- Large type / large print
- Large type / large print edition
- Line drawings, black and white; Illustrations, black and white
- 1410425657
- 9781410425652
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"This little book is an entertaining and surprisingly informative survey of the 'Big D' and its centrality in human life." -- "Publishers Weekly"
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