Looking At Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter - Softcover

Palmer, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073407488 ISBN 13: 9780073407487

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Synopsis

Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teaching experiences, this approachable, historically organized text exemplifies Dr. Palmer's very successful light-hearted approach to teaching introduction to philosophy. Through the use of humor, drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the readers--without compromising the seriousness of the subject matter. The text can be used as a core text or as a supplement to any reader.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Palmer received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Univ. of California, Berkeley and his Doctorate of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.  He has published a number of philosophy books, including Looking at Philosophy, Does the Center Hold? and Why Its Hard to Be Good (McGraw-Hill), and, more popularly, Kierkegaard for Beginners, Sartre for Beginners, and Structuralism and Post-Structuralism for Beginners.  He has recently completed a manuscript on Don Quixote titled Philosophy and Madness in La Mancha.  He taught for many years at the College of Marin, in California, and finished his teaching career at North Carolina State University.  He and his wife divide their time among North Carolina, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Lot Valley in Southwestern France.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0073407488
• ISBN 13: 9780073407487
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 464