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  1. Literary works originally written in English: James R. Wood, Anecdotes of Enlightenment: Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth (2019)
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American post-1945 poetry

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The more intense an individual's concern with power over things, the more will things dominate him, the more will he lack any genuine individual traits, and the more will his mind be transformed into an automaton of formalized reason.

Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason

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