Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates :
Cathcart, Thomas, 1940-
Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explain life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between / - New York : Viking, 2009. - viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-236) and index.
Surely there must be some mistake -- Let your angst be your umbrella -- Death? the way to go! -- Heideggerty-dog, ziggity-boom, what you do to me -- Spin your own immortality -- The eternal now -- Plato, the godfather of soul -- Heaven, a landscape to die for -- Tunnel vision -- The original knock-knock joke -- Beating death to the punch line -- Immortality through not dying -- The end.
Explores death and the afterlife from lighthearted philosophical, theological, and psychological perspectives that consider that death may not be such a pessimism-inducing state.
9780670020836 0670020834
2009017128
Death.
Future life.
Immortality.
Death--Humor.
Future life--Humor.
Immortality--Humor.
Humor.
Leben.
Philosophie.
Tod.
Unsterblichkeit.
BD444 / .C38 2009
129
Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explain life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between / - New York : Viking, 2009. - viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-236) and index.
Surely there must be some mistake -- Let your angst be your umbrella -- Death? the way to go! -- Heideggerty-dog, ziggity-boom, what you do to me -- Spin your own immortality -- The eternal now -- Plato, the godfather of soul -- Heaven, a landscape to die for -- Tunnel vision -- The original knock-knock joke -- Beating death to the punch line -- Immortality through not dying -- The end.
Explores death and the afterlife from lighthearted philosophical, theological, and psychological perspectives that consider that death may not be such a pessimism-inducing state.
9780670020836 0670020834
2009017128
Death.
Future life.
Immortality.
Death--Humor.
Future life--Humor.
Immortality--Humor.
Humor.
Leben.
Philosophie.
Tod.
Unsterblichkeit.
BD444 / .C38 2009
129