Nietzsche and BenjaminJohn C. Welchman

VIS 255 Spring 2011Thursdays 2 to 4.50 VAF seminar room (room 366)

Anthologies of Nietzsche’s writings [in English translation]* Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Modern Library, 2000, ISBN 0-679-78339-3

Full texts of The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo; selections from Human, All-Too Human, Mixed Opinions and Maxims, The Wanderer and His Shadow, The Dawn, and The Gay Science.

* The Portable Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Penguin, 1977, ISBN 0-14-015062-5Full texts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, The Anti-Christ, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and miscellaneous, shorter excerpts, essays, and letters

The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings, trans. Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-521-01688-6

The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings, eds. Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs, Cambridge University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-521-63987-5

On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings, trans. Carol Diethe, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-40610-2

Books by Nietzsche [in English translation]The Birth of Tragedy, 1872

in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, 2000in The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings, trans. Ronald Spiers, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (also contains: 'The Dionysiac World View' and 'On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense')

The Untimely Meditations, 1873-6trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1997 as Unfashionable Observations, trans. Richard T. Gray, Stanford University Press, 1998, Human,

All Too Human, 1878trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1996, (also contains: Mixed Opinions and Maxims, 1879 and The Wanderer and His Shadow, 1880)trans. Gary Handwerk, Stanford University Press, 1997

The Dawn, 1881as Daybreak, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1997

The Gay Science, 1882, 1887trans. Walter Kaufmann, Vintage, 1974ed. Bernard Williams, trans. Josefine Nauckhoff and Adrian Del Caro, Cambridge University Press, 2001

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883-5trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1961in The Portable Nietzsche, 1977trans. Adrian Del Caro, Cambridge University Press, 2006trans. Graham Parkes, Oxford University Press, 2005

Beyond Good and Evil, 1886in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, 2000trans. Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2001

On the Genealogy of Morals, 1887in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, 2000trans. Douglas Smith, Oxford University Press, 1996 (paperback)

The Case of Wagner, 1888in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, 2000in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings, trans. Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (also contains: The Case of Wagner, 1888; Nietzsche contra Wagner, 1888)

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Twilight of the Idols, 1888in The Portable Nietzsche, 1977trans. Richard Polt, Hackett Publishing Company, 1997in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings, 2005

The Antichrist, 1888in Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin Classics, 1990in The Portable Nietzsche, 1977in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings, 2005

Ecce Homo, 1888in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, 2000in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings, 2005

Nietzsche contra Wagner, 1888in The Portable Nietzsche, 1977in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings, 2005

The Will to Power and Other Posthumous Collectionsed. and trans. Walter Kaufmann, Vintage, 1968Writings from the Late Notebooks, ed. Rüdiger Bittner, Cambridge University Press, 2003Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870s, ed. and trans. Daniel Breazeale, Prometheus Books, 1990Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, trans. Marianne Cowan, Regnery Publishing, 1996The Pre-Platonic Philosophers, trans. Greg Whitlock, University of Illinois Press, 2001

Secondary texts [on reserve]Rudiger Safranski, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography W. W. Norton, 2001Richard Schachts, Nietzsche [Arguments of the Philosophers series] Routledge, Reprint edition, 1985Brian Leiter, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality, Routledge, 2002 David B. Allison, Reading the New Nietzsche, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000 Reginster, The Affirmation of Life, Harvard University Press, 2009Erich Heller, The Importance of Nietzsche, University Of Chicago Press, 1990F.A. Lea, The Tragic Philosopher, Athlone Press, 1993 Henry Staten, Nietzsche’s Voice, Cornell University Press, 1993Tracy Strong, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration, University of California Press, 1988 Michael Tanner, Nietzsche [Past Masters] Oxford University Press, 1995Charlie Huenemann, Nietzsche: Genius of the Heart, CreateSpace, 2009Bertrand Russell, “Nietzsche” in History of Western Philosophy, 1946; Routledge, 2004 Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche, Harper & Row, 1961Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche et la philosophie, 1962; trans. High Tomlinson, Nietzsche and Philosophy

Continuum, 1983Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche, 1965; trans. in Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life, trans. Anne Boyman, Zone

Books, 2001

Julian Young, Nietzsche's Philosophy of ArtB000APHPKI

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, Cambridge University Press, 1994Robert B. Pippen, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy, University of Chicago Press, 2010Albert Henrichs, “Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic” in The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy, 2005, pp. 444–458

M. S. Silk and J. P. Stern, B001H6MRXO

Nietzsche on Tragedy, Cambridge University Press, 1983B00288CO92

Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts [Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts], eds.

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Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway, Cambridge University Press, 2002 Secondary texts [on-line]See http://sites.google.com/site/jfhumphrey01/nietzsche_bibliography [The official site of “A Bibliography of Works and Articles by and about Friedrich Nietzsche”]Solomon and K. Higgins, What Nietzsche Really Said (Schocken), E-book (restricted to UCSD IP addresses): http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucsd/docDetail.action?docID=2002190 Brian Leiter, “Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/Robert Wicks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/Donald Rutherford, "Nietzsche's Way" http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rutherford/phil108/nietzschesway.pdfDonald Rutherford, "Are You Experienced? Nietzsche on the Judgment of Value"

http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rutherford/phil108/experience.pdfDonald Rutherford “handouts”: Passages from Nietzsche's Writings; Ecce Homo; Schopenhauer as

Educator; The Gay Science; Introduction to Beyond Good and Evil; The Doctrine of Will to Power; Genealogy of Morals; Thus Spoke Zarathustra http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/

rutherford/phil108/handouts.htmlBackground materials at http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/beckman/Nietzsche/nts170.htmAnthony M. Ludovici, Nietzsche and Art, Constable, London, 1911

http://www.anthonymludovici.com/na_pre.htm Books by Walter Benjamin [all are published by Harvard University Press]The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940 The Arcades Project, ed., Roy Tiedemann, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin Moscow Diary, trans. Richard Sieburth, preface by Gershom Scholem, ed. Gary Smith Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926 * Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927-1934 [hard] Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938 Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940 Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 1, 1927-1930 [soft] Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 2, 1931-1934 [soft] The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire Berlin Childhood around 1900 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media, eds.,

Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, Thomas Y. Levin On Hashish, trans Howard Eiland and others

* Note: Vol. 2 exists as a single vol. in hard cover and two vols. in paperback Secondary texts [on reserve] * = importantLutz Koepnick, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (Modern German Culture and Literature)

(University of Nebraska, 1999). Gershom Gerhard Scholem, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books

Classics, 2003)Carol Jacobs, In the Language of Walter Benjamin (Johns Hopkins University Press; New Ed., 2000)Howard Caygill, Introducing Walter Benjamin (Totem, 2001) Howard Caygill, Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (Routledge, 1998) Vance Bell, David Brottman, Martin Gantman, and David Gross, Benjamin's Blind Spot: Walter Benjamin

and the Premature Death of Aura (Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2001) Rainer Rochlitz and Jane Marie Todd, The Disenchantment of Art: The Philosophy of Walter Benjamin

(Guilford Press, 1998) Sigrid Weigel, Body- and Image- Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin (Warwick Studies in European

Philosophy) (Routledge, 1996) Terry Eagleton, Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (Verso, 1985) Beatrice Hanssen, Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels

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(Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (University of California Press, 2000)Bernd Witte and James Rolleston, Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography (Kritik : German Literary

Theory and Cultural Studies) (Wayne State University Press, 1997) S. Brent Plate, Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts

(Routledge, 2004) Brian M. Britt, Walter Benjamin and the Bible (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003) Margaret Cohen, Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (Weimar

and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (University of California Press, 1995) Matthew Rampley, The Remembrance of Things Past: On Aby M. Warburg and Walter Benjamin

(Harrassowitz, 2000) David Ferris, ed. Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions (Stanford University Press, 1996) Rainer Nagle "The Poetic Ground Laid Bare (Benjamin Reading Baudelaire)"Monad Rrenban, Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy: In Early Works of Walter Benjamin (Lexington, 2005)Margarete Kohlenback, Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) Michael P. Steinberg, ed. Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History, (Cornell University Press, 1996) Richard Wolin, Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption (Weimar and Now: German Cultural

Criticism, No 7) (University of California Press, 1994) * Andrew Benjamin, ed., Walter Benjamin and Art (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005)* Gary Smith, ed. On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections (Studies in Contemporary

German Social Thought) (MIT Press, 1991) (essays on hashish, Goethe, the modern city; and by Gershom Scholem, Jürgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno and Ernst Bloch).

* Peter Osborn and Andrew Benjamin, eds. Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (Clinamen Press, 2000) (essays by Rodolphe Gasche, Howard Caygill, Gertrud Koch, Andrew Benjamin, A.G. Duttmann, Peter Osborne, and Esther Leslie ... examining the impact of the Arcades Project on Benjamin studies).

Pierre Missac, Walter Benjamin's Passages (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (MIT Press, 1996) *Peter Osborne, ed. Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (Routledge, 2004) (large

compendium of critical articles)Kia Lindroos, Now-Time/Image-Space. Temporalization of Politics in Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of

History and Art (Sophi, 1998)Eric Jacobson, Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom

Scholem (Columbia University Press, 2003) Week 1 Thursday March 31Introduction to Nietzsche [with gust speaker Professor Tracy Strong] Tracy Strong presentation: "The Birth of Tragedy: The Optics of Science, Art and Life" Readings:Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy [Die Geburt der Tragödie, 1872]English eds. include:

Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Modern Library, 2000The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings, trans. Ronald Spiers, Cambridge University Press, 1999, (also contains: 'The Dionysiac World View' and 'On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense')

Tracy Strong "How to take a Writer Seriously: Nietzsche and the Question of Rhetoric" [to be circulated]Background:Albert Henrichs, “Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic” in The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy, 2005, pp. 444–458Martha C. Nussbaum, “The transfigurations of intoxication: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysius” in

Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts [Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts], eds. Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 26-69

Introduction to The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings, eds. Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs,Cambridge University Press, 1999

M. S. Silk and J. P. Stern, B001H6MRXO

Nietzsche on Tragedy, Cambridge University Press, 1983Tracy Strong, “What Is Dionysian? Nietzsche and the Greeks,” in Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration, University of California Press, 1988, pp. 135-85

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Peter Sloterdijk, Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism, trans. Jamie Owen Daniel, University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

Henry Staten, Nietzsche’s Voice, Cornell University Press, 1993 Week 2 Thursday April 7a) questions and further discussion of The Birth of Tragedy and Strong's presentation b) READ Nietzsche Contra Wagner (in The Portable Nietzsche) c) PROJECT Nietzsche, Art and the Aesthetic I would like everyone to chose a passage in which Nietzsche discusses some aspect of art or the aesthetic in any writings (but not Birth of Tragedy), bring it to class and present a brief (no more than 5 mins.) discussion). It might be best if the passage cane from one of the set book; but feel free to use other writings if they interest you. You could also choose a chapter or part of one of the secondary books on Nietzsche and art on (or off) the reading lists, and present on the position it argues. Week 3 Thursday April 14 OR Week 6 May 5 [to be confirmed] "Nietzsche on Morality and Freedom" lead by Professor Donald Rutherford (Chair, Philosophy, UCSD) READINGS Genealogy of Morals; Twilight of the Idols (esp. "Morality as Anti-Nature" and "Skirmishes of an Untimely Man"); Ecce Homo Two papers by Rutherford on freedom and related issues [will be sent out later] Week 4 Week 5 or 6 John C Welchman presentation “Walter Banjamin’s Materialist Physiognomy” Read the six "Curriculum Vitae" texts in vols. 1-4 Vol. 2 We Ought to Reexamine the Link between Teaching and Research Suggested Benjamin topic clusters for weeks 6-10 1. Writings on childhood, toys, youth, students etc. Vol. 1 The Metaphysics of Youth The Life of Students Notes for a Study of the Beauty of Colored Illustrations in Children's Books "Old Forgotten Children's Books" A Glimpse into the World of Children's Books Vol 2 Old Toys The Cultural History of Toys Toys and Play Children's Literature Program for a Proletarian Children's Theater Vol. 3 Berlin Childhood around 1900 2. Travel essays, city portraits and places Vol. I Naples Vol. 2 Moscow Diary of my journey to the Loire

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Marseilles Demonic Berlin Paris Diary Myslovice--Braunschweig--Marseilles The Lisbon Earthquake Ibiza Sequence Food Fair Paris as Goddess A Berlin Chronicle Spain In the Sun The Eve of Departure Milieu Theoreticians Vol. 3 Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on the Essay "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century" Conversation above the Corso: Recollections of Carnival-Time in NiceSee also: Moscow Diary Translator Richard Sieburth, Preface by Gershom Scholem, Editor Gary Smith (Harvard UP)Carol Jacobs, In the Language of Walter Benjamin; chapter 2, “Berlin Chronicle: Topographically Speaking”; and chapter 4, “Benjamin’s Tessera: ‘Myslovice--Braunschweig—Marseilles.’”Essay on city portraits in Gary Smith, ed. On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) (MIT Press, 1991) 3. Writings on Literature and Language: The case of Baudelaire Vols. 1, 2, 3 (Holderlin, Trauerspiel, Dostoevsky, Humbolt, Goethe, Gide, Kafka, Brecht ... others [selections]) Vol. 4 [Baudeliare essays] also read: The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire The Study Begins with Some Reflections on the Influence of Les Fleurs du mal Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire" Central Park Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on "The Flâneur" Section of "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire" On Some Motifs in Baudelaire Letter to Theodor W. Adorno on Baudelaire, Georg and Hofmannsthal See also:Rosalind Krauss, “The power of the specific image” [departs from Benjamin’s “The Image of Proust”] at http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/saggi/power-specific-imageRainer Nagle "The Poetic Ground Laid Bare (Benjamin Reading Baudelaire)" inDavid Ferris, ed. Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions (Stanford University Press, 1996) 4. Writings on philosophy and philosophers, criticism and general critical questions Vol. 1: The Ground of Intentional Immediacy Perception Is Reading On Perception Every Unlimited Condition of the Will Types of History Fate and Character Analogy and Relationship World and Time According to the Theory of Duns Scotus On Love and Related Matters Theory of Knowledge Truth and Truths / Knowledge and Elements of Knowledge Socrates On the Program of the Coming Philosophy The Theory of Criticism Riddle and Mystery Theses on the Problem of Identity

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Stages of Intention Outline of the Psychophysical Problem On the Topic of Individual Disciplines and Philosophy Vol. 2 Kiekegaard Experience and Poverty Thought Figures The Task of the Critic Experience Vol. 3 The Significance of Beautiful Semblance The Signatures of the Age Theory of Distraction 5. Arcades ProjectSee The Arcades Project, ed., Roy Tiedemann, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Harvard UP)See also:Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) (MIT Press, 1991)Essay by Esther Leslie in Peter Osborn and Andrew Benjamin, eds. Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (Clinamen Press, 2000) 6. Writings on art and visual culture Vol. 1 Painting and the Graphic Arts Painting, or Signs and Marks Beauty and Semblance On Semblance Categories of Aesthetics The Medium through Which Works of Art Continue to Influence Later Ages Vol. 2 Surrealism Some Remarks on Folk Art The Rigorous Study of Art On the Mimetic Faculty Vol. 3 Letter from Paris (2): Painting and PhotographySee also:Andrew Benjamin, ed., Walter Benjamin and Art (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005)Matthew Rampley, The Remembrance of Things Past: On Aby M. Warburg and Walter Benjamin (Harrassowitz, 2000) Margaret Cohen, Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (University of California Press, 1995) S. Brent Plate, Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts (Routledge, 2004) 7. Writings on social and moral/religious issues, including Socialism, Nazism etc. Vol. 1 The Right to Use Force Critique of Violence The Meaning of Time in the Moral Universe Capitalism as Religion The Currently Effective Messianic Elements Even the Sacramental Migrates into Myth Vol. 2 A Communist Pedagogy Theories of German Fascism Notes on a Theory of Gambling

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Theological Criticism Lef-Wing Melancholy Hitler's Diminshed Masculinity Vol. 3 A Different Utopian Will Theological-Political Fragment The Land Where the Proletariat May Not Be Mentioned: The Premiere Vol. 4 On the Concept of History Paralipomena to "On the Concept of History" A chronicle of Germany's UnemployedSee also:Walter Benjamin, Moscow Diary Lutz Koepnick, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power, Introduction; Part I “Benjamin and the Fascist Spectacle”; and chapter 7 “Fascist Aesthetics revisited”Eric Jacobson, Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (Columbia University Press, 2003)Terry Eagleton, Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (Verso, 1985) S. Brent Plate, Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts (Routledge, 2004) 8. Writings on media (photography, newspapers, print, film, radio) Vol. 2 On the Present Situation of Russian Film Review of Gladkov's Cement Chaplin and Chaplin in Retrospect Notes on a Conversation with Béla Balász Little History of Photography Reflections of Radio Mickey Mouse Theater and Radio The Newspaper A Critique of the Publishing Industry Vol 3 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (second version) The Formula in Which the Dialectical Structure of Film Finds Expression Vol. 4 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (third version) Review of Freund's Photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècleSee also: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media, eds., Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, Thomas Y. Levin (Harvard UP) 9. Hashish texts and writings on the imagination Vol. 1 : Imagination Vol 2: Main Features of My Second Impression of Hashish Hashish, Beginning of March, 1930; Hashish in MarseillesSee also On Hashish, translated by Howard Eiland and others (Harvard UP)Essay on hashish in Gary Smith, ed. On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) (MIT Press, 1991)

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