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Book Title: Heidegger's Technologies : Postphenomenological Perspectives
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: DON Ihde
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Media Studies, Social Aspects, Individual Philosophers, Movements / Phenomenology
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Philosophy
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
