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By (author) Klein Daniel; By (author) Cathcart Thomas

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You don’t need a dusty tome to encounter great ideas.

In this joyous introduction to the major debates in Western philosophy, we see how cartoons can shed light and humour on life’s Big Questions. Topics such as gender, morality and the meaning of life are examined here with a razor wit and eye.

Open this book (if it actually exists) and meet philosophers interrogating the world:

De Beauvoir on a building site.

Kant in a snowglobe.

Machiavelli on a tennis court.

This is philosophy as you’ve never seen it before.

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‘I very much enjoyed it. Funny, succinct…just like a good cartoon.’

Biographical note

Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart studied philosophy together at Harvard in the last millennium. Since then they have become the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. Daniel is also the author of Travels with Epicurus and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It.

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The great philosophers live among us, and they’ve got some great punchlines

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Sunday Times and internationally bestelling authors, with over half a million books sold worldwide – Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar alone sold 350,000 copies.

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Semi-finalist for the 2019 Thurber Prize for American humour writing

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Series look for those who loved Travels with Epicurus and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life.

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Perfect gift, enlivening and enlightening.