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A History of Ideas - Writer AL Kennedy on Sartre and the Individual - BBC Sounds

A History of Ideas

Writer AL Kennedy on Sartre and the IndividualWriter AL Kennedy on Sartre and the Individual

Released On: 15 Apr 2015

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Writer AL Kennedy explores existentialist ideas about the individual.

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