Dean A. Kowalski

eBook, PDF

Classic Questions and Contemporary Film (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction to Philosophy

Beschreibung

Featuring significant revisions and updates, Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd Edition uses popular movies as a highly accessible framework for introducing key philosophical concepts * Explores 28 films with 18 new to this edition, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hotel Rwanda, V for Vendetta, and Memento * Discusses numerous philosophical issues not covered in the first edition, including a new chapter covering issues of personal identity, the meaningfulness of life and death, and existentialism * Offers a rich pedagogical framework comprised of key classic readings, chapter learning outcomes, jargon-free argument analysis, critical thinking and trivia questions, a glossary of terms, and textboxes with notes on the movies discussed * Revised to be even more accessible to beginning philosophers

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• Größe: 15.86MB

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• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Dean A. Kowalski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. He is the author of Classic Questions and Contemporary Film (2005) and Moral Theory at the Movies (2012). He is the editor of Steven Spielberg and Philosophy (2008), The Philosophy of The X-Files (2009), and The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy (Wiley, 2012), and the coeditor of The Philosophy of Joss Whedon (2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118585610
• Artikelnr.: 43733762