Stop Me If You've Heard This

Resumen del libro

From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness'just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If Youve
Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humors history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didnt go to a Catholic girls school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from Americas most beloved philosophical pundit.

Biografía del autor

Jim Holt es un reconocido ensayista y publica asiduamente sus críticas sobre temas como la filosofía, las matemáticas y las ciencias en The New Yorker, The New York Times y The New York Times Review of Books. Asimismo, es autor de Stop Me if You've Heard It.