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Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life

by Martha C. Nussbaum · 1996

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In Poetic Justice,one of our most prominent philosophers explores how the literary imagination is an essential ingredient of just public discourse and a democratic society.

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adult
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short · 168 pages

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