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Book Title: Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays In Philosophy And Psychoanal...
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Wisdom Won from Illness : Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Semiotics & Theory, Movements / Rationalism
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Jonathan Lear
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
