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1) Plato and a platypus walk into a bar: understanding philosophy through jokes

Author

Cathcart, Thomas

Publisher

Abrams Image

Pub. Date

2007

Physical Desc

200 p.

Language

English

2) Plato and a platypus walk into a bar: understanding philosophy through jokes

Author

Cathcart, Thomas

Publisher

Abrams Image

Pub. Date

2006

Physical Desc

200 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar..... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in...