Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: ...

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR’s Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar…is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what it's like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything), and much more.

This book is a joy to read—and finally, it all makes sense!

“I laughed, I learned, I loved it!” Roy Blount Jr.