num_pages: 200
description: Here's 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. Finally it all makes sense!
language: English
title: Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
titlecomplete: Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
genres: Comedy, History, Philosophy, Reference, Psychology, Humor, Audiobook, Science, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 16062
publisher: Harry N. Abrams