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Which very famous nineteenth century philosopher penned The Twilight of the Idols which word-plays upon Wagner's opera, "The Twilight of the Gods"?
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"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility."
This passage is from a book by which author?
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What famous essayist wrote, "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am)?
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When Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche wrote, "From all quartersof the ancient world...from Rome to Babylon, we can point to the existence of ........festivals centered in extravagant licentiousness, whose waves overwhelmed all family life and its venerable traditions; the most savage natural instincts were unleashed, including even that horrible mixture of sensuality and cruelty which has always seemed to me to be the real 'witches' brew'." ....he was speaking of festivals most closely associated with which of these Greek gods?
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Of whom did Friedrich Nietzsche declare in his essay 'Schopenhauer as Educator':
"That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on this Earth"?
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Which one of these authors' work does NOT receive an extended discussion in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's groundbreaking work of criticism: Epistemology of the Closet?
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Fill in the missing name in this statement by Thomas Mann:
"In _________, Germany had experienced something of the order of a birth of poetry from the spirit of cricitism."
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Who is/are the dedicatee(s) of Richard Dawkins' book, The God Delusion?
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