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© 1997 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

Originally published as Asthetische Theorie, © 1970 Suhrkamp

Verlag, Frankfurt am Main

This translation published 1997 by The Athlone Press Ltd

Paperback edition published 2004 by Continuum

Reprinted 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 (twice), 2012

This paperback edition first published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Academic

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