Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe: Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet

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Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe : Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet. / Holm, Isak Winkel.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022. 256 p.

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Holm, IW 2022, Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe: Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet. Oxford University Press, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862518.001.0001

APA

Holm, I. W. (2022). Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe: Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862518.001.0001

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Holm IW. Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe: Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 256 p. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862518.001.0001

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Holm, Isak Winkel. / Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe : Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022. 256 p.

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