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The Man without Predicates

Michael Wood

  • Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Volume II: Revolution and Reunciation, 1790-1803 by Nicholas Boyle
  • Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Williams

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Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.

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