Reddit reviews Introducing Consciousness: A Graphic Guide

I've been a big fan of Icon Books' "Introducing" series. They're sorta like intellectual comic books, but are able to give you a good precis of a given author or subject quite efficiently. I prefer them to Paul Strathern's 90 Minutes series because they go into better depth on the theoretical aspects of a thinker, whereas Strathern spends more time in biographical detail and only briefly dips into the theory. If you buy used, and look around for older editions you can usually find them going for about between a penny and a buck or less on Amazon, and with $3.99 shipping, it's a pretty cheap way to get a good start in a subject. The upside is their more recent books like the ones on Derrida and Zizek come with approval from the author they're covering. Derrida reportedly loved his, and Zizek was apparently quite excited about the medium and had many ideas for how to communicate with it.

Consciousness, Time, Ethics


But yeah, the best thing you can do for yourself though after or while sating your interests is to get a solid foundation in the Greeks, because EVERYBODY references them, everybody. They are great in and of themselves, but you will literally save yourself years of your own time that would have been spent trying to pin down this that or the other thing that so and so said if you don't have a solid basic understanding of the Greeks.

This is a very quick and super-understandable (1-2 sittings) overview of current thought on consciousness.

http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Consciousness-Graphic-David-Papineau/dp/1848311710?ie=UTF8&qid=&ref_=tmm_pap_title_0&sr=

This one. It's not super in-depth or exhaustive but it's a nice "intro" to the philosophy of consciousness. I'm enjoying it.