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Book Title: Potentialities: Collected Essays
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publication Name: Potentialities : Collected Essays in Philosophy
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2000
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 328 Pages