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Book Title: Plasticity At The Dusk Of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, D...
Item Length: 0.9in
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Author: Catherine Malabou
Publication Name: Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing : Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Ser.
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 136 Pages
