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Book Title: Shipwreck with Spectator : Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence
Number of Pages: 136 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: General
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Author: Hans Blumenberg
Item Length: 8.1 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Book Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
