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Book Title: Perfection of Freedom : Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 6in
Author: D. C. Schindler
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: History & Surveys / General, European / German, Individual Philosophers, General, Metaphysics, History & Surveys / Modern, Political Freedom
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
