The Private Sphere: An Emotional Territory and Its AgentThis book describes an emotional territory, which forms the individual's own sphere of action and experience. This develops in the course of evolution in pace with the individual's conditions of life, brought about by challenges in the natural and social environment. |
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| Title | The Private Sphere: An Emotional Territory and Its Agent Volume 15 of Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture |
| Author | Mats G. Hansson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 |
| ISBN | 140206652X, 9781402066528 |
| Length | 179 pages |
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