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Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Figures of the Thinkable
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, General
Publication Year: 2007
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.6 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Cornelius Castoriadis
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Ser.
Format: Perfect
