Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar
Subtitle: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Publisher: Abrams Image
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780810914933
Subjects: Humor; Philosophy; Form - Essays; History & Surveys - General; Humor / General; Philosophy; humor; General
Description: Here's a lively, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's 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 it's 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!--From publisher description.