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Author:

Cathcart, Thomas, 1940-

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.

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Subject:

Death.
Future life.
Immortality.
Death--Humor.
Future life--Humor.
Immortality--Humor.

Other Authors:

Klein, Daniel M.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-236) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0670020834
9780670020836

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318411616

LCCN:

2009017128

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

NKPD993 -- Eagle Grove Memorial Library (Eagle Grove)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

NBPB943 -- Lehigh Public Library (Lehigh)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)