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Book Title: Intoxication
Item Length: 8.5in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Movements / Deconstruction, Poetry, History & Surveys / Modern, Semiotics & Theory
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 72 Pages
