Episode Synopsis "Intervention in space and affirmation of self: the ethics of improvement "

7/8. Andreas Schönle (Queen Mary, University of London) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012.

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