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Kathleen Dow Magnus, Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001). pp. 291. ISBN 0791450465. £15.00.

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Kathleen Dow Magnus, Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001). pp. 291. ISBN 0791450465. £15.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Victoria I. Burke*
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Miami University, Ohio
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