Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between

245 pages

English language

Published June 1, 2009

ISBN:
978-0-670-02083-6
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Review of 'Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between' on 'Goodreads'

I've been giving out too many stars for books that bothered me and it's time I stopped doing that. After all, I'm not going to live forever and it's time I started expressing myself honestly. So here it is.
Most of the jokes I'd heard before. Maybe 2 or 3 were new and maybe one of those I laughed at. As for the philosophy. I'd hoped it would help me make sense of Heidegger who seems to have a lot of people convinced he's a major thinker. And I still don't know what's so great about him. Is it that he made people confront their death? Street criminals do that every day. And the Nazis did that, I guess, which may be why he became one.

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While not as funny as the authors seem to think it is, this book is a good way to read about some of the fundamental philosophical questions without collapsing under the weight.

As a Science Fiction fan, I was especially interested in the last chapter that dealt with immortality, a subject many SF books deal with.

The Jokes, like Jokes are a bit stale, but they are tied to a deeper meaning and that gives them a bit of extra umpff.

If you know people that love telling jokes, and I know a couple, this book gave me a few good jokes that they really enjoyed.

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