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Book Title: Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Robert Gooding-Williams
Publication Name: Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics Ser.
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
