Dictionary of Untranslatables

Cassin, Barbara edits

'A Philosophical Lexicon': c.400 definitions and short essays on terms including 'shensucht', 'sprezzatura', 'sublime', 'shame', 'stemming' etc; indexed, 1,300pp.

Publisher: Princeton University Press. First American edition 2014
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Princeton, New Jersey
Review copy with press release laid in. Slight, short tear in rear cover, else fine in dustwrapper.


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