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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates By Thomas Cathcart

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

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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

Parroting and parodying the world’s greatest thinkers, humorists have often taken a lighter approach to death, lifting up The Grim Reaper’s gown to reveal the cartoon underwear beneath. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates is Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein’s uproarious look at the meaning of death (and life.) The weighty writings of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre and Camus are categorically satirized by the two authors, professional gag writers who have worked with Flip Wilson, Lily Tomlin and others. Cathcart and Klein hilariously skew what The Deep Thinkers had to say on the subject of all things dead, dying or deathly—and gallows humor is the order of the day. The Big D has gotten a bad rap over the years.

Hardcover: 256 pages

Publisher: Viking Penguin/Div of Penguin Putnam ( October 20, 2009 )

Item #: 12-8496

ISBN: 9780670020836

Product Dimensions: 5.0 x 7.0 x 0.64 inches

Product Weight: 10.0 ounces

Delightful Look at Death
January 19, 2010

this should salve any fears you might have of the great unknown called death. The writing is good, the jokes are helpful and the variety of view points lets you pick your favorites to consider and discuss with your friends. None of us really know anything about the big D, but if God favores the Hippo over circumlocution, then we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Reviewer: Sarita M

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