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Pyra, L. (2006). Men in Front of Animals. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Four. Analecta Husserliana, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3737-6_12

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