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‘Enlightenment’ now and empathy later? by Agustín Fuentes
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Agustin Fuentes’s The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional...
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional Agustín Fuentes Penguin, 2017, 352 pages Agustín Fuentes’ The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional (Fuentes, 2017)...
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