Klein and Cathcart will share the startling insights that got their book, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, turned down by forty publishers.
Cathcart is also the author of The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge? They followed up with Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates, and I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons. Cathcart studied theology and managed healthcare organizations before linking up with Klein to write Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy through Jokes.
Klein has written comedy for Lily Tomlin, Flip Wilson, and others and published scores of fiction and nonfiction books-from thrillers to entertaining philosophical books, such as his London Times bestseller, Travels with Epicurus, and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It. (202) 364-1919.For anyone who has ever tried to plow through the densest works in the history of Western philosophy, there is good news: It can all be better understood with wacky jokes! Yes! Had you known, you could have saved all that money you paid your roommate to write your philosophy term paper.ĭanny Klein and Tom Cathcart have been best friends for over sixty years, having studied philosophy at Harvard together in the last millennium. at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. Cathcart and Klein discuss and sign copies of their work at 7 p.m. But Cathcart and Klein consistently drop comedic bombs with an accuracy that their targets have never achieved in Iraq.
More likely, it’s because-for a pair of philosophers-Cathcart and Klein don’t do a whole lot of heavy-duty philosophizing, opting instead to focus on the simple logical fallacies that many politicians have made a living out of spewing forth. So how is it that Harvard philosophy majors Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes, are so damn funny? Well, maybe it’s because they’re picking pretty easy targets: In the national embarrassment that passes for the United States government, every political quote is good for a punch line. Most annoying, and the least amusing, of all the types of college students is the philosophy major-that pain in the ass whose idea of clever humor is to frustratingly ask, “Yes, but why?” to every response one offers in conversation. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.
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