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Book Title: The Present Alone Is Our Happiness, Second Edition: Conversa...
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Present Alone Is Our Happiness, Second Edition : Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Philosophers, History & Surveys / General, Movements / General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.9 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Pierre Hadot
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
