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With this work Hagman stands in the company of his predecessors with this deeply-learned, sensitively conceived, and provocative general theory of human aesthetic experience.\" Ellen Dissanayake, author of Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began and Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53563597521169,"sku":"NLS9789042018563","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789042018563.jpg?v=1778891700"},{"product_id":"bettelheim-living-and-dying-book-david-james-fisher-9789042023802","title":"Bettelheim: Living and Dying","description":"\"A self-declared 'critical admirer' and final confident of Bruno Bettelheim, David James Fisher succeeds with as balanced and nuanced a portrayal as seems possible of the character, the lifetime contributions, and the final justifications of a most controversial psychoanalytic eminence. 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