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    Keynote Speaker

    By Jonathan M Barrett

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    Antoine Maercx is ranked 73rd in the Time Benelux edition list of 'Most important contemporary thinkers’. He arrives in Wellington to make the keynote address at the biennial Australasian Nietzsche Society conference. But from the moment he is picked up at the airport, things do not go to plan for the eminent professor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan M Barrett
    Release dateJul 13, 2010
    ISBN9781452394855
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    Jonathan M Barrett

    Jonathan M Barrett lives and teaches in Wellington, New Zealand. As well as writing plays, short stories and a novel, Jonathan is also a prize-winning academic writer. Contact him at jonathan@polis.co.nz

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