Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (Paperback)
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The zaniest bestseller of the year. The Boston Globe I laughed, I learned, I loved it. Roy Blount, Jr.
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes theyd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authorsand born vaudevilliansThomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPRs Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . . is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced a (more…)
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Posted January 17, 2010
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