![]() ![]() Klein and Cathcart have the knack of getting to the core of an issue in a crystal clear line, meaning there's more room for jokes - good jokes, clever jokes, jokes that'll have you laughing so hard the people nearby will shoot you strange looks. It's philosophy for everyone, from the curious layperson to the professor who's seen it all. ![]() is an irreverent crash course through the great thinkers and traditions. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart take philosophy to task with flair and gusto in this wise and hilarious treasure of a book. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. The authors manage their brevity by illustrating those issues with very apt stories, anecdotes and jokes. Not bad for a couple of philosophy majors from Harvard who tried on various careers after graduation. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. 'Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar' is highly entertaining, fast read that covers an astonishing range of philosophical issues with an economy of words. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein wrote the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, which will be translated into more than a dozen languages. Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. ![]()
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