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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 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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