Nihilism and Utopia : Plato, Nietzsche, Isaiah Berlin and utopian thinking
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عنوان ژورنال: Études platoniciennes
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2275-1785
DOI: 10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.275