托马斯·卡斯卡特&丹尼尔·克莱恩(Thomas Cathcart &Daniel Klein),美国畅销作家。两人从哈佛大学哲学系毕业后走上了不同的路。托马斯在芝加哥社区和神学院工作,出版哲学书;丹尼尔在纽约为电视脱口秀写脚本,还写悬疑小说。两人有一个梦想:用哲学拯救沉闷的生活。他们用幽默段子和丰富知识,写出了《柏拉图和鸭嘴兽一起去酒吧》,结果一炮而红。他们目前都和家人生活在新英格兰地区。
发表于2025-02-07
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
刚看到书名《柏拉图和鸭嘴兽一起去酒吧》还以为是以故事的形式重塑了哲学流变,然而看完本书,发现并没有太大关系。反倒是以一种幽默风趣的方式科普了哲学体系,打破了哲学的生涩难懂壁垒。书中举例的哲学名词和各种主义,看完全书的读者真的能记住明白吗?我也只能呵呵了。 响...
评分不知从什么时候开始,大家对于哲学就只剩下艰涩难懂着样的印象了,那些高深莫测的哲学书籍里的每一个字每一个句子都是如此的简单明了,但理解起来却总是费尽心思而不得要领。不得不说,哲学书读起来总是更"费脑子"些,但要明白没有一本书是一劳永逸的,而哲学虽然看似高不可攀,但永远...
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Here's a lively, hilarious, 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), and much more. Finally—it all makes sense!
“I laughed, I learned, I loved it!” Roy Blount Jr.
Merging the intimidating philosophy theories with jokes seems a nice concept for a coffee table book, but after 2 hours of painful reading I found this book can be best described as the famous saying: "Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, no one is very interested and the frog dies of it".
评分把部分哲学蜻蜓点水过了一遍,用一些笑话来调侃这些哲学观点。
评分Merging the intimidating philosophy theories with jokes seems a nice concept for a coffee table book, but after 2 hours of painful reading I found this book can be best described as the famous saying: "Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, no one is very interested and the frog dies of it".
评分通俗的哲学笑话书,适合蹲马桶的时候读。
评分幽默;顿悟。
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书