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The Fall of Sleep

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Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul.In an extraordinary theoretical investigation written with lyric intensity, The Fall of Sleep puts an end to this neglect by providing a deft yet rigorous philosophy of sleep. What do...more
Hardcover, 88 pages
Published October 1st 2009 by Fordham University Press (first published 2009)
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