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Book Title: Adorno's Negative Dialectic : Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Methodology, Individual Philosophers, General, Criticism, Movements / Critical Theory
Publication Year: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Item Length: 10.6 in
Author: Brian O'connor
Item Width: 5.9 in
Book Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
