ERIC KAPLAN is a co-executive producer of (and writer for) the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory . Previously he wrote for the Late Show with David Letterman , Futurama (for which he won an Emmy Award), and Flight of the Conchords . Kaplan graduated from Harvard and is currently completing his PhD dissertation in philosophy at UC Berkeley.
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa--from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang Theory
Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick becomes a deeply insightful, laugh-out-loud discussion of the way some things exist but may not really be there. Just like Santa and his reindeer.
Even after we outgrow the jolly fellow, the essential paradox persists: There are some things we dearly believe in that are not universally acknowledged as real. In Does Santa Exist? Kaplan shows how philosophy giants Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein strove to smooth over this uncomfortable meeting of the real and unreal--and failed. From there he turns to mysticism's attempts to resolve such paradoxes, surveying Buddhism, Taoism, early Christianity, Theosophy, and even the philosophers at UC Berkeley under whom he studied. Finally, this brilliant comic writer alights on--surprise--comedy as the ultimate resolution of the fundamental paradoxes of life, using examples from The Big Bang Theory , Monty Python's cheese shop sketch, and many other pop-culture sources.
Finally Kaplan delves deeper into what this means, from how our physical brains work to his own personal confrontations with life's biggest questions: If we're all going to die, what's the point of anything? What is a perfect moment? What can you say about God? Or Santa?
这本书的翻译名叫做《本书书名无法描述本书内容》,化用了书里第一章的内容,非常有趣但不能涵盖全书意义,个人觉得翻译版改动书名不太好。全书结构清晰,是由“圣诞老人存在吗”的问题贯穿整本书,分别用“逻辑”“神秘主义”“幽默”“人生意义”“我和你”的五大章节来解答...
评分如果不是因为作者是big bang theory的编剧,我想不出可以读这本书的理由~内容东拼西凑,翻译也不是太吸引人~~有点点小失落~~
评分实际这本书应该翻译成《圣诞老人真的存在吗》,但是为了营销翻译了现在的书名。作者虽然是生活大爆炸的编辑,但也只是之一,书写的比较混乱,不知翻译问题还是原文实际就这样,很多道理绕来绕去没讲明白,或者简单的讲复杂了。最后两章作者推荐阿里哲学派,让整本书看起来像是...
评分 评分其实是一本哲学方面的书。。。
评分本书围绕着does Santa really exist这个主线来展开讲一些基本的哲学概念 很有趣的思维爆炸 当然有些地方也比较啰嗦 和santa的衔接和略显生硬 4星!!
评分前面三章挺好 后面Ari那看得脑壳疼
评分如果“有趣”的定义只是插科打诨,那么这当然是一本“有趣”的书。然而对我来说这书里的嬉皮笑脸,牵强附会的比喻多到了影响心情的程度。千万不要以为这是什么哲学或者逻辑学入门读物,在我看来这只是作者为自己的喜剧事业背书而已。
评分#Part 3 Comedy写得很有趣!
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