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Aestheticism: The Case of Walter Pater\n## The Importance of T.E. Hulme\n## A Craving for Reality: T.S. Eliot Today\n## Wallace Stevens: Metaphysical Claims Adjuster\n## The Permanent Auden\n## The First Half of Muriel Spark\n## The Qualities of Robert Musil\n# Part Two\n## James Fitzjames Stephen v. John Stuart Mill\n## The Legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche\n## The World According to Sartre\n## The Perversions of Michel Foucault\n## The Anguishes of E.M. 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