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Paradox of Cruelty

Philip Paul Hallie

An exploration of the infliction of pain, and its problem for human life, using examples from art and literature. Why do most people oppose cruelty in the abstract yet there are so many examples of cruelty in fact?

Graphics design

Samuel M. Green

Dimensions

24 x 16.5 cm

Pages

189

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1969.

Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.

Language: English.

ISBN

978-0-81954-003-4

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