|
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes | 
 enlarge | Authors: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
Publisher: Abrams Image
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $11.01
You Save: $7.94 (42%)
New (6) Used (10) from $8.85
Avg. Customer Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 238783
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.8
Dewey Decimal Number: 102.07
ASIN: B001990I7Q
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new book
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Heres a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. Its Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what its like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finallyit all makes sense!
I laughed, I learned, I loved it! Roy Blount Jr.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 120 more reviews...
 wonderful gift book November 16, 2008
This is a wonderful book to enjoy and to give as a gift. It includes insights, wisdom, and great jokes!
Horrible both philosophically and comedically November 9, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a Ph.D. student in philosophy and I bought this to see whether any of it was worth using in an Intro to Philosophy course. None of it is worth using for that purpose. It does every topic an injustice: usually false or misleading; at best superficial. Nor is it funny; although I agree with Wittgenstein that good, serious philosophy could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
James Grindeland
Department of Philosophy
University of Georgia
 Understanding the jokes November 4, 2008
Our book club selection (9 people) for Oct. The members that were educated in these fields reveled on this book. Most of us weren't of that mindset, we did enjoy and shared our favorite or most meaningful joke. Those that understood high stars, others low marks so 3 stars and enjoy.
Philosphy can be hilarious October 16, 2008
This is a very funny book with laugh out loud jokes that illustrate all the schools of philosophy, including meta-phlosophy: philosophy about philosophy, which, despite its name, does not invole drugs. You will learns something about these different branches that most of us would avoid like cow liver. You may even be inspired to take a class or read a more serious work. Me, I am going to read one of their other book.
John, author of reading Thomas Merton
Excellent. September 23, 2008
I won't pretend for a moment I know a damn thing about philosophy, as much as I'd love to the esoteric barriers always seem just out reach for either my pedestrian intelligence or my patience, or both. This book, and its companion (Aristotle and an Aardvark) are both so enjoyable I read it completely while in the bookstore and still bought it. The authors appear to have a deeply rooted understanding of the nuances of philosophical thought and study yet present the material in such an approachable, understandable and humorous way one can't help but enjoy the process of learning. You WILL laugh and WILL learn.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
