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Politics Lite as usual in Oscar's bluff

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Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), suggested that the decline of Greek civilisation was accompanied by its increasing reification, celebration, and systematic self-affirmation in the major works of the period. The more dissolute and decadent Greece became, the...

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