"Caligulism" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1745, Horace Walpole, Letter to France",
          "text": "Alas! It would be endless to tell you all his Calligulisms.",
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          "ref": "1991, Sergio Villani, Paul Valéry on War, Power, and Civlization, page 32",
          "text": "By contrast, Valéry's \"Caligulism\" is, above all, a narcissistic attitude which aims to achieve conquest of the Self: such an attitude intensifies Self-awareness by meditating objectively on images of power.",
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          "ref": "2018, Balázs Trencsényi, Michal Kopeček, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič, A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, page 360",
          "text": "A paradigmatic declaration of the break with socialist realism was the 1952 speech, at the Congress of Yugoslav Writers in Ljubljana, by Miroslav Krleža. Affirming the revolutionary role of art, he fervently denounced the dogmatism dominating Yugoslav cultural policies in the late 1940s as “aesthetic Caligulism,” arguing that “writing does not equal describing nor prescribing.”",
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