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Literary notes about vilification (AI summary)

The term "vilification" has been used in literature to underscore intense criticism and condemnation, often intertwining with broader themes of political manipulation and deep-seated cultural or philosophical critique. In Carnegie and Esenwein's work, for instance, "Campaigns of vilification, corruption and false pretence" illustrates how such denunciatory rhetoric is depicted as ultimately losing its effectiveness in public discourse [1]. In contrast, Nietzsche's invocation of "man-vilification" is woven into a more radical framework, suggesting an audacious assault on longstanding attitudes toward nature and humanity [2]. This dual usage highlights the word’s ability to convey both the fleeting, exploitative practices of political rhetoric and the more enduring, critical challenges to conventional human values.
  1. Campaigns of vilification, corruption and false pretence have lost their usefulness.
    — from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein
  2. Let us cast a glance a century ahead, let us suppose my assault upon two millenniums of anti-nature and man-vilification succeeds!
    — from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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