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Number of Pages: 928 Pages

Publication Name: Four Ages of Understanding : The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Language: English

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Subject: History & Surveys / General, Metaphysics, Semiotics & Theory

Item Height: 2.1 in

Publication Year: 2011

Item Weight: 62.8 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 10 in

Author: John Deely

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy

Item Width: 7.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback