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Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explain life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2009.Description: viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780670020836
  • 0670020834
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 129 22
LOC classification:
  • BD444 .C38 2009
Other classification:
  • 5,1
  • CB 5100
  • CC 6600
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Explores death and the afterlife from lighthearted philosophical, theological, and psychological perspectives that consider that death may not be such a pessimism-inducing state.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 129 CAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000258817

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.

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