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Hardcover, black cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s unclipped and non-priced dust-jacket. 488 pages. Notes and Index. Illustrated throughout in black and white. First edition. A collection of essays seeking to explain, or at least understand, the subject/object distinction which exists between man and the inanimate physical world in which he lives. From my own limited understanding Daston and her colleagues reject Martin Heidegger’s postulate that objects are things whose meaning and relevance only derive from the agency of man. Sorry, but I have to go with Heidegger, if memory serves I believe he called it thinking. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and near like new copy in a like dust-jacket. Jacket now protected by clear Brodart cover. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.