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Book Title: Mourning Sickness: Hegel And The French Revolution
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Rebecca Comay
Publication Name: Mourning Sickness : Hegel and the French Revolution
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
