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253 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674564688
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Lepenies makes inventive use of an extraordinary range of sociological, philosophical, and literary sources, from Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy to the ideas of contemporary theorists such as Robert K. Merton and Arnold Gehlen. His study ga...
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253 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674564688
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Lepenies makes inventive use of an extraordinary range of sociological, philosophical, and literary sources, from Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy to the ideas of contemporary theorists such as Robert K. Merton and Arnold Gehlen. His study ga...