Title:
Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explain life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between / by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein.
Author:
Cathcart, Thomas, 1940-
Klein, Daniel M.
Publication Information:
New York : Viking, 2009.
Call Number:
BD444 .C38 2009
Abstract:
Explores death and the afterlife from lighthearted philosophical, theological, and psychological perspectives that consider that death may not be such a pessimism-inducing state.
ISBN:
9780670020836
Physical Description:
viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
Surely there must be some mistake -- Just let your angst be your umbrella -- Death? the way to go! -- Heidegger-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 -- Immortality through not dying -- The end.
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