Heidegger şi Un Hipopotam Intră Pe Porţile Raiului (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
A book that gives itself a tough assignment from the outset: Refer to (and quote) the work of famous philosophers on a decidedly down topic: death. And make it funny. And like a session with a couple of standup comics—which this book resembles in some way, because it's structured like a conversation with two comics and a listener who occasionally heckles—there are some definite hits and misses with the jokes.Thus, many of the jokes are 5 stars, but a number of them are twos, and a few are airless balloons. Many of the philosophical citations and interpretations, from people like Descartes, Freud, Camus, Plato and (my favorite) Woody Allen are indeed intriguing, because this death thing won't go away, and one of our only defenses is to laugh about it, or laugh about how what we do to prepare for it, stave it off or embrace it willingly. So, worth a read. If you don't get a chuckle (or a philosophical insight) on one page, keep turning—they gotta million of them. Bada bing. In addition to laughing so hard my sides hurt, I learned several philosophers' names and a general idea of what they believe(d) about life, death and the afterlife. This was a great way to release some of the tension and anxiety I have about watching a loved one preparing to cross the boundary of death, from life into New Life. No matter what you believe or don't about the here-after, I would recommend this as a way of considering different viewpoints. I borrowed the audio version from the library, and I would highly recommend this way of absorbing this book! Well done, indeed.
What do You think about Heidegger şi Un Hipopotam Intră Pe Porţile Raiului (2009)?
DEVO smetterla di comprare libri solo perchè mi piace il titolo!!!!
—rrm
Quit reading, found it to be not terribly interesting.
—China
it reads like CLick n'Clack for philosophy nerds
—ryan
