Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers

Astra Taylor, Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Slavoj Zizek, Peter Singer, Judith Butler, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Martha Craven Nussbaum

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Year of publication 2009
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