Download e-book for kindle: Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to by Dean A. Kowalski

By Dean A. Kowalski

ISBN-10: 1118585607

ISBN-13: 9781118585603

that includes major revisions and updates, Classic Questions and modern movie: An creation to Philosophy, 2d Edition makes use of well known videos as a hugely available framework for introducing key philosophical concepts

  • Explores 28 motion pictures with 18 new to this version, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless brain, inn Rwanda, V for Vendetta, and Memento
  • Discusses a variety of philosophical matters no longer lined within the first variation, together with a brand new bankruptcy  overlaying problems with own identification, the meaningfulness of lifestyles and loss of life, and existentialism
  • Offers a wealthy pedagogical framework produced from key vintage readings, bankruptcy studying results, jargon-free argument research, severe pondering and minutiae questions, a thesaurus of phrases, and textboxes with notes at the video clips discussed
  • Revised to be much more obtainable to starting philosophers

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