20 results
Maternal fish consumption and child neurodevelopment in Nutrition 1 Cohort: Seychelles Child Development Study
- Marie C. Conway, Alison J. Yeates, Tanzy M. Love, Daniel Weller, Emeir M. McSorley, Maria S. Mulhern, Maria Wesolowska, Gene E. Watson, Gary J. Myers, Conrad F. Shamlaye, Juliette Henderson, Philip W. Davidson, Edwin van Wijngaarden, J. J. Strain
-
- Journal:
- British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 130 / Issue 8 / 28 October 2023
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 10 February 2023, pp. 1366-1372
- Print publication:
- 28 October 2023
-
- Article
-
- You have access Access
- Open access
- HTML
- Export citation
-
Maternal fish consumption exposes the fetus to beneficial nutrients and potentially adverse neurotoxicants. The current study investigated associations between maternal fish consumption and child neurodevelopmental outcomes. Maternal fish consumption was assessed in the Seychelles Child Development Study Nutrition Cohort 1 (n 229) using 4-day food diaries. Neurodevelopment was evaluated at 9 and 30 months, and 5 and 9 years with test batteries assessing twenty-six endpoints and covering multiple neurodevelopmental domains. Analyses used multiple linear regression with adjustment for covariates known to influence child neurodevelopment. This cohort consumed an average of 8 fish meals/week and the total fish intake during pregnancy was 106·8 (sd 61·9) g/d. Among the twenty-six endpoints evaluated in the primary analysis there was one beneficial association. Children whose mothers consumed larger quantities of fish performed marginally better on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (a test of nonverbal intelligence) at age 5 years (β 0·003, 95 % CI (0, 0·005)). A secondary analysis dividing fish consumption into tertiles found no significant associations when comparing the highest and lowest consumption groups. In this cohort, where fish consumption is substantially higher than current global recommendations, maternal fish consumption during pregnancy was not beneficially or adversely associated with children’s neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Patient isolation for infection control and patient experience
- Zishan K. Siddiqui, Sarah Johnson Conway, Mohammed Abusamaan, Amanda Bertram, Stephen A. Berry, Lisa Allen, Ariella Apfel, Holley Farley, Junya Zhu, Albert W. Wu, Daniel J. Brotman
-
- Journal:
- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 40 / Issue 2 / February 2019
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 18 December 2018, pp. 194-199
- Print publication:
- February 2019
-
- Article
- Export citation
-
Objective
Hospitalized patients placed in isolation due to a carrier state or infection with resistant or highly communicable organisms report higher rates of anxiety and loneliness and have fewer physician encounters, room entries, and vital sign records. We hypothesized that isolation status might adversely impact patient experience as reported through Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys, particularly regarding communication.
DesignRetrospective analysis of HCAHPS survey results over 5 years.
SettingA 1,165-bed, tertiary-care, academic medical center.
PatientsPatients on any type of isolation for at least 50% of their stay were the exposure group. Those never in isolation served as controls.
MethodsMultivariable logistic regression, adjusting for age, race, gender, payer, severity of illness, length of stay and clinical service were used to examine associations between isolation status and “top-box” experience scores. Dose response to increasing percentage of days in isolation was also analyzed.
ResultsPatients in isolation reported worse experience, primarily with staff responsiveness (help toileting 63% vs 51%; adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.77; P = .0009) and overall care (rate hospital 80% vs 73%; aOR, 0.78; P < .0001), but they reported similar experience in other domains. No dose-response effect was observed.
ConclusionIsolated patients do not report adverse experience for most aspects of provider communication regarded to be among the most important elements for safety and quality of care. However, patients in isolation had worse experiences with staff responsiveness for time-sensitive needs. The absence of a dose-response effect suggests that isolation status may be a marker for other factors, such as illness severity. Regardless, hospitals should emphasize timely staff response for this population.
10 - The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche contra Wagner
- from Link to The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche contra Wagner
-
- By Daniel W. Conway, Texas A&M University.
- Edited by Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow
-
- Book:
- A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche
- Published by:
- Boydell & Brewer
- Published online:
- 05 February 2013
- Print publication:
- 16 July 2012, pp 285-308
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
My greatest experience was a recovery. Wagner is merely one of my illnesses.
[Mein grösstes Erlebniss war eine Genesung. Wagner gehört bloss zu meinen Krankheiten.
(CW preface; KSA 6, 12)]THE YEAR 1888 WAS NOT ONLY Nietzsche's most productive as an author, but also his final year of sanity. In May of that year he completed a first draft of The Case of Wagner (Der Fall Wagner), to which he subsequently added a preface, two postscripts, and an epilogue. The first edition was published by C. G. Naumann in September of that year. Later that year, responding in part to reviews of The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche quickly prepared Nietzsche contra Wagner for print. He excerpted the contents from his earlier books, lightly editing these selections and adding a very brief preface. By design, this book contains very little that is new. The preface to Nietzsche contra Wagner is dated Christmas, 1888, and the book was published in February of 1889. By that time, of course, Nietzsche had surrendered to the madness that would envelope him for the remainder of his life.
In general, we find that Nietzsche's treatment of Wagner in these two books consistently touches on the following themes: first, his aversion to Wagner was neither recent nor opportunistic;
Contributors
-
- By Rose Teteki Abbey, K. C. Abraham, David Tuesday Adamo, LeRoy H. Aden, Efrain Agosto, Victor Aguilan, Gillian T. W. Ahlgren, Charanjit Kaur AjitSingh, Dorothy B E A Akoto, Giuseppe Alberigo, Daniel E. Albrecht, Ruth Albrecht, Daniel O. Aleshire, Urs Altermatt, Anand Amaladass, Michael Amaladoss, James N. Amanze, Lesley G. Anderson, Thomas C. Anderson, Victor Anderson, Hope S. Antone, María Pilar Aquino, Paula Arai, Victorio Araya Guillén, S. Wesley Ariarajah, Ellen T. Armour, Brett Gregory Armstrong, Atsuhiro Asano, Naim Stifan Ateek, Mahmoud Ayoub, John Alembillah Azumah, Mercedes L. García Bachmann, Irena Backus, J. Wayne Baker, Mieke Bal, Lewis V. Baldwin, William Barbieri, António Barbosa da Silva, David Basinger, Bolaji Olukemi Bateye, Oswald Bayer, Daniel H. Bays, Rosalie Beck, Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Guy-Thomas Bedouelle, Chorbishop Seely Beggiani, Wolfgang Behringer, Christopher M. Bellitto, Byard Bennett, Harold V. Bennett, Teresa Berger, Miguel A. Bernad, Henley Bernard, Alan E. Bernstein, Jon L. Berquist, Johannes Beutler, Ana María Bidegain, Matthew P. Binkewicz, Jennifer Bird, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Dmytro Bondarenko, Paulo Bonfatti, Riet en Pim Bons-Storm, Jessica A. Boon, Marcus J. Borg, Mark Bosco, Peter C. Bouteneff, François Bovon, William D. Bowman, Paul S. Boyer, David Brakke, Richard E. Brantley, Marcus Braybrooke, Ian Breward, Ênio José da Costa Brito, Jewel Spears Brooker, Johannes Brosseder, Nicholas Canfield Read Brown, Robert F. Brown, Pamela K. Brubaker, Walter Brueggemann, Bishop Colin O. Buchanan, Stanley M. Burgess, Amy Nelson Burnett, J. Patout Burns, David B. Burrell, David Buttrick, James P. Byrd, Lavinia Byrne, Gerado Caetano, Marcos Caldas, Alkiviadis Calivas, William J. Callahan, Salvatore Calomino, Euan K. Cameron, William S. Campbell, Marcelo Ayres Camurça, Daniel F. Caner, Paul E. Capetz, Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Patrick W. Carey, Barbara Carvill, Hal Cauthron, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Mark D. Chapman, James H. Charlesworth, Kenneth R. Chase, Chen Zemin, Luciano Chianeque, Philip Chia Phin Yin, Francisca H. Chimhanda, Daniel Chiquete, John T. Chirban, Soobin Choi, Robert Choquette, Mita Choudhury, Gerald Christianson, John Chryssavgis, Sejong Chun, Esther Chung-Kim, Charles M. A. Clark, Elizabeth A. Clark, Sathianathan Clarke, Fred Cloud, John B. Cobb, W. Owen Cole, John A Coleman, John J. Collins, Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Paul K. Conkin, Beth A. Conklin, Sean Connolly, Demetrios J. Constantelos, Michael A. Conway, Paula M. Cooey, Austin Cooper, Michael L. Cooper-White, Pamela Cooper-White, L. William Countryman, Sérgio Coutinho, Pamela Couture, Shannon Craigo-Snell, James L. Crenshaw, David Crowner, Humberto Horacio Cucchetti, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Elizabeth Mason Currier, Emmanuel Cutrone, Mary L. Daniel, David D. Daniels, Robert Darden, Rolf Darge, Isaiah Dau, Jeffry C. Davis, Jane Dawson, Valentin Dedji, John W. de Gruchy, Paul DeHart, Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, Miguel A. De La Torre, George E. Demacopoulos, Thomas de Mayo, Leah DeVun, Beatriz de Vasconcellos Dias, Dennis C. Dickerson, John M. Dillon, Luis Miguel Donatello, Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev, Susanna Drake, Jonathan A. Draper, N. Dreher Martin, Otto Dreydoppel, Angelyn Dries, A. J. Droge, Francis X. D'Sa, Marilyn Dunn, Nicole Wilkinson Duran, Rifaat Ebied, Mark J. Edwards, William H. Edwards, Leonard H. Ehrlich, Nancy L. Eiesland, Martin Elbel, J. Harold Ellens, Stephen Ellingson, Marvin M. Ellison, Robert Ellsberg, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Eldon Jay Epp, Peter C. Erb, Tassilo Erhardt, Maria Erling, Noel Leo Erskine, Gillian R. Evans, Virginia Fabella, Michael A. Fahey, Edward Farley, Margaret A. Farley, Wendy Farley, Robert Fastiggi, Seena Fazel, Duncan S. Ferguson, Helwar Figueroa, Paul Corby Finney, Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald, Thomas E. FitzGerald, John R. Fitzmier, Marie Therese Flanagan, Sabina Flanagan, Claude Flipo, Ronald B. Flowers, Carole Fontaine, David Ford, Mary Ford, Stephanie A. Ford, Jim Forest, William Franke, Robert M. Franklin, Ruth Franzén, Edward H. Friedman, Samuel Frouisou, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Jojo M. Fung, Inger Furseth, Richard R. Gaillardetz, Brandon Gallaher, China Galland, Mark Galli, Ismael García, Tharscisse Gatwa, Jean-Marie Gaudeul, Luis María Gavilanes del Castillo, Pavel L. Gavrilyuk, Volney P. Gay, Metropolitan Athanasios Geevargis, Kondothra M. George, Mary Gerhart, Simon Gikandi, Maurice Gilbert, Michael J. Gillgannon, Verónica Giménez Beliveau, Terryl Givens, Beth Glazier-McDonald, Philip Gleason, Menghun Goh, Brian Golding, Bishop Hilario M. Gomez, Michelle A. Gonzalez, Donald K. Gorrell, Roy Gottfried, Tamara Grdzelidze, Joel B. Green, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Cristina Grenholm, Herbert Griffiths, Eric W. Gritsch, Erich S. Gruen, Christoffer H. Grundmann, Paul H. Gundani, Jon P. Gunnemann, Petre Guran, Vidar L. Haanes, Jeremiah M. Hackett, Getatchew Haile, Douglas John Hall, Nicholas Hammond, Daphne Hampson, Jehu J. Hanciles, Barry Hankins, Jennifer Haraguchi, Stanley S. Harakas, Anthony John Harding, Conrad L. Harkins, J. William Harmless, Marjory Harper, Amir Harrak, Joel F. Harrington, Mark W. Harris, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Van A. Harvey, R. Chris Hassel, Jione Havea, Daniel Hawk, Diana L. Hayes, Leslie Hayes, Priscilla Hayner, S. Mark Heim, Simo Heininen, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Eila Helander, David Hempton, Scott H. Hendrix, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Gina Hens-Piazza, Carter Heyward, Nicholas J. Higham, David Hilliard, Norman A. Hjelm, Peter C. Hodgson, Arthur Holder, M. Jan Holton, Dwight N. Hopkins, Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Po-Ho Huang, James Hudnut-Beumler, Jennifer S. Hughes, Leonard M. Hummel, Mary E. Hunt, Laennec Hurbon, Mark Hutchinson, Susan E. Hylen, Mary Beth Ingham, H. Larry Ingle, Dale T. Irvin, Jon Isaak, Paul John Isaak, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Hans Raun Iversen, Margaret C. Jacob, Arthur James, Maria Jansdotter-Samuelsson, David Jasper, Werner G. Jeanrond, Renée Jeffery, David Lyle Jeffrey, Theodore W. Jennings, David H. Jensen, Robin Margaret Jensen, David Jobling, Dale A. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Maxwell E. Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Mark D. Johnston, F. Stanley Jones, James William Jones, John R. Jones, Alissa Jones Nelson, Inge Jonsson, Jan Joosten, Elizabeth Judd, Mulambya Peggy Kabonde, Robert Kaggwa, Sylvester Kahakwa, Isaac Kalimi, Ogbu U. Kalu, Eunice Kamaara, Wayne C. Kannaday, Musimbi Kanyoro, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Frank Kaufmann, Léon Nguapitshi Kayongo, Richard Kearney, Alice A. Keefe, Ralph Keen, Catherine Keller, Anthony J. Kelly, Karen Kennelly, Kathi Lynn Kern, Fergus Kerr, Edward Kessler, George Kilcourse, Heup Young Kim, Kim Sung-Hae, Kim Yong-Bock, Kim Yung Suk, Richard King, Thomas M. King, Robert M. Kingdon, Ross Kinsler, Hans G. Kippenberg, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Clifton Kirkpatrick, Leonid Kishkovsky, Nadieszda Kizenko, Jeffrey Klaiber, Hans-Josef Klauck, Sidney Knight, Samuel Kobia, Robert Kolb, Karla Ann Koll, Heikki Kotila, Donald Kraybill, Philip D. W. Krey, Yves Krumenacker, Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan, Simanga R. Kumalo, Peter Kuzmic, Simon Shui-Man Kwan, Kwok Pui-lan, André LaCocque, Stephen E. Lahey, John Tsz Pang Lai, Emiel Lamberts, Armando Lampe, Craig Lampe, Beverly J. Lanzetta, Eve LaPlante, Lizette Larson-Miller, Ariel Bybee Laughton, Leonard Lawlor, Bentley Layton, Robin A. Leaver, Karen Lebacqz, Archie Chi Chung Lee, Marilyn J. Legge, Hervé LeGrand, D. L. LeMahieu, Raymond Lemieux, Bill J. Leonard, Ellen M. Leonard, Outi Leppä, Jean Lesaulnier, Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis, Henrietta Leyser, Alexei Lidov, Bernard Lightman, Paul Chang-Ha Lim, Carter Lindberg, Mark R. Lindsay, James R. Linville, James C. Livingston, Ann Loades, David Loades, Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole, Lo Lung Kwong, Wati Longchar, Eleazar López, David W. Lotz, Andrew Louth, Robin W. Lovin, William Luis, Frank D. Macchia, Diarmaid N. J. MacCulloch, Kirk R. MacGregor, Marjory A. MacLean, Donald MacLeod, Tomas S. Maddela, Inge Mager, Laurenti Magesa, David G. Maillu, Fortunato Mallimaci, Philip Mamalakis, Kä Mana, Ukachukwu Chris Manus, Herbert Robinson Marbury, Reuel Norman Marigza, Jacqueline Mariña, Antti Marjanen, Luiz C. L. Marques, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele), Caleb J. D. Maskell, Steve Mason, Thomas Massaro, Fernando Matamoros Ponce, András Máté-Tóth, Odair Pedroso Mateus, Dinis Matsolo, Fumitaka Matsuoka, John D'Arcy May, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Theodore Mbazumutima, John S. McClure, Christian McConnell, Lee Martin McDonald, Gary B. McGee, Thomas McGowan, Alister E. McGrath, Richard J. McGregor, John A. McGuckin, Maud Burnett McInerney, Elsie Anne McKee, Mary B. McKinley, James F. McMillan, Ernan McMullin, Kathleen E. McVey, M. Douglas Meeks, Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon, Ilie Melniciuc-Puica, Everett Mendoza, Raymond A. Mentzer, William W. Menzies, Ina Merdjanova, Franziska Metzger, Constant J. Mews, Marvin Meyer, Carol Meyers, Vasile Mihoc, Gunner Bjerg Mikkelsen, Maria Inêz de Castro Millen, Clyde Lee Miller, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Alexander Mirkovic, Paul Misner, Nozomu Miyahira, R. W. L. Moberly, Gerald Moede, Aloo Osotsi Mojola, Sunanda Mongia, Rebeca Montemayor, James Moore, Roger E. Moore, Craig E. Morrison O.Carm, Jeffry H. Morrison, Keith Morrison, Wilson J. Moses, Tefetso Henry Mothibe, Mokgethi Motlhabi, Fulata Moyo, Henry Mugabe, Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi, Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde, Robert Bruce Mullin, Pamela Mullins Reaves, Saskia Murk Jansen, Heleen L. Murre-Van den Berg, Augustine Musopole, Isaac M. T. Mwase, Philomena Mwaura, Cecilia Nahnfeldt, Anne Nasimiyu Wasike, Carmiña Navia Velasco, Thulani Ndlazi, Alexander Negrov, James B. Nelson, David G. Newcombe, Carol Newsom, Helen J. Nicholson, George W. E. Nickelsburg, Tatyana Nikolskaya, Damayanthi M. A. Niles, Bertil Nilsson, Nyambura Njoroge, Fidelis Nkomazana, Mary Beth Norton, Christian Nottmeier, Sonene Nyawo, Anthère Nzabatsinda, Edward T. Oakes, Gerald O'Collins, Daniel O'Connell, David W. Odell-Scott, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Kathleen O'Grady, Oyeronke Olajubu, Thomas O'Loughlin, Dennis T. Olson, J. Steven O'Malley, Cephas N. Omenyo, Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro, César Augusto Ornellas Ramos, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, Kenan B. Osborne, Carolyn Osiek, Javier Otaola Montagne, Douglas F. Ottati, Anna May Say Pa, Irina Paert, Jerry G. Pankhurst, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Samuele F. Pardini, Stefano Parenti, Peter Paris, Sung Bae Park, Cristián G. Parker, Raquel Pastor, Joseph Pathrapankal, Daniel Patte, W. Brown Patterson, Clive Pearson, Keith F. Pecklers, Nancy Cardoso Pereira, David Horace Perkins, Pheme Perkins, Edward N. Peters, Rebecca Todd Peters, Bishop Yeznik Petrossian, Raymond Pfister, Peter C. Phan, Isabel Apawo Phiri, William S. F. Pickering, Derrick G. Pitard, William Elvis Plata, Zlatko Plese, John Plummer, James Newton Poling, Ronald Popivchak, Andrew Porter, Ute Possekel, James M. Powell, Enos Das Pradhan, Devadasan Premnath, Jaime Adrían Prieto Valladares, Anne Primavesi, Randall Prior, María Alicia Puente Lutteroth, Eduardo Guzmão Quadros, Albert Rabil, Laurent William Ramambason, Apolonio M. Ranche, Vololona Randriamanantena Andriamitandrina, Lawrence R. Rast, Paul L. Redditt, Adele Reinhartz, Rolf Rendtorff, Pål Repstad, James N. Rhodes, John K. Riches, Joerg Rieger, Sharon H. Ringe, Sandra Rios, Tyler Roberts, David M. Robinson, James M. Robinson, Joanne Maguire Robinson, Richard A. H. Robinson, Roy R. Robson, Jack B. Rogers, Maria Roginska, Sidney Rooy, Rev. Garnett Roper, Maria José Fontelas Rosado-Nunes, Andrew C. Ross, Stefan Rossbach, François Rossier, John D. Roth, John K. Roth, Phillip Rothwell, Richard E. Rubenstein, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Markku Ruotsila, John E. Rybolt, Risto Saarinen, John Saillant, Juan Sanchez, Wagner Lopes Sanchez, Hugo N. Santos, Gerhard Sauter, Gloria L. Schaab, Sandra M. Schneiders, Quentin J. Schultze, Fernando F. Segovia, Turid Karlsen Seim, Carsten Selch Jensen, Alan P. F. Sell, Frank C. Senn, Kent Davis Sensenig, Damían Setton, Bal Krishna Sharma, Carolyn J. Sharp, Thomas Sheehan, N. Gerald Shenk, Christian Sheppard, Charles Sherlock, Tabona Shoko, Walter B. Shurden, Marguerite Shuster, B. Mark Sietsema, Batara Sihombing, Neil Silberman, Clodomiro Siller, Samuel Silva-Gotay, Heikki Silvet, John K. Simmons, Hagith Sivan, James C. Skedros, Abraham Smith, Ashley A. Smith, Ted A. Smith, Daud Soesilo, Pia Søltoft, Choan-Seng (C. S.) Song, Kathryn Spink, Bryan Spinks, Eric O. Springsted, Nicolas Standaert, Brian Stanley, Glen H. Stassen, Karel Steenbrink, Stephen J. Stein, Andrea Sterk, Gregory E. Sterling, Columba Stewart, Jacques Stewart, Robert B. Stewart, Cynthia Stokes Brown, Ken Stone, Anne Stott, Elizabeth Stuart, Monya Stubbs, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, David Kwang-sun Suh, Scott W. Sunquist, Keith Suter, Douglas Sweeney, Charles H. Talbert, Shawqi N. Talia, Elsa Tamez, Joseph B. Tamney, Jonathan Y. Tan, Yak-Hwee Tan, Kathryn Tanner, Feiya Tao, Elizabeth S. Tapia, Aquiline Tarimo, Claire Taylor, Mark Lewis Taylor, Bishop Abba Samuel Wolde Tekestebirhan, Eugene TeSelle, M. Thomas Thangaraj, David R. Thomas, Andrew Thornley, Scott Thumma, Marcelo Timotheo da Costa, George E. “Tink” Tinker, Ola Tjørhom, Karen Jo Torjesen, Iain R. Torrance, Fernando Torres-Londoño, Archbishop Demetrios [Trakatellis], Marit Trelstad, Christine Trevett, Phyllis Trible, Johannes Tromp, Paul Turner, Robert G. Tuttle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Peter Tyler, Anders Tyrberg, Justin Ukpong, Javier Ulloa, Camillus Umoh, Kristi Upson-Saia, Martina Urban, Monica Uribe, Elochukwu Eugene Uzukwu, Richard Vaggione, Gabriel Vahanian, Paul Valliere, T. J. Van Bavel, Steven Vanderputten, Peter Van der Veer, Huub Van de Sandt, Louis Van Tongeren, Luke A. Veronis, Noel Villalba, Ramón Vinke, Tim Vivian, David Voas, Elena Volkova, Katharina von Kellenbach, Elina Vuola, Timothy Wadkins, Elaine M. Wainwright, Randi Jones Walker, Dewey D. Wallace, Jerry Walls, Michael J. Walsh, Philip Walters, Janet Walton, Jonathan L. Walton, Wang Xiaochao, Patricia A. Ward, David Harrington Watt, Herold D. Weiss, Laurence L. Welborn, Sharon D. Welch, Timothy Wengert, Traci C. West, Merold Westphal, David Wetherell, Barbara Wheeler, Carolinne White, Jean-Paul Wiest, Frans Wijsen, Terry L. Wilder, Felix Wilfred, Rebecca Wilkin, Daniel H. Williams, D. Newell Williams, Michael A. Williams, Vincent L. Wimbush, Gabriele Winkler, Anders Winroth, Lauri Emílio Wirth, James A. Wiseman, Ebba Witt-Brattström, Teofil Wojciechowski, John Wolffe, Kenman L. Wong, Wong Wai Ching, Linda Woodhead, Wendy M. Wright, Rose Wu, Keith E. Yandell, Gale A. Yee, Viktor Yelensky, Yeo Khiok-Khng, Gustav K. K. Yeung, Angela Yiu, Amos Yong, Yong Ting Jin, You Bin, Youhanna Nessim Youssef, Eliana Yunes, Robert Michael Zaller, Valarie H. Ziegler, Barbara Brown Zikmund, Joyce Ann Zimmerman, Aurora Zlotnik, Zhuo Xinping
- Edited by Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
-
- Book:
- The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity
- Published online:
- 05 August 2012
- Print publication:
- 20 September 2010, pp xi-xliv
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
Contributors
-
- By Joanne R. Adler, David A. Alexander, Laurence Alison, Catherine C. Ayoub, Peter Banister, Anthony R. Beech, Amanda Biggs, Julian Boon, Adrian Bowers, Neil Brewer, Eric Broekaert, Paula Brough, Jennifer M. Brown, Kevin Browne, Elizabeth A. Campbell, David Canter, Michael Carlin, Shihning Chou, Martin A. Conway, Claire Cooke, David Cooke, Ilse Derluyn, Robert J. Edelmann, Vincent Egan, Tom Ellis, Marie Eyre, David P. Farrington, Seena Fazel, Daniel B. Fishman, Victoria Follette, Katarina Fritzon, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Nathan D. Gillard, Renée Gobeil, Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Lynsey Gozna, Don Grubin, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Helinä Häkkänen-Nyholm, Guy Hall, Nathan Hall, Roisin Hall, Sean Hammond, Leigh Harkins, Grant T. Harris, Camilla Herbert, Robert D. Hoge, Todd E. Hogue, Clive R. Hollin, Lorraine Hope, Miranda A. H. Horvath, Kevin Howells, Carol A. Ireland, Jane L. Ireland, Mark Kebbell, Michael King, Bruce D. Kirkcaldy, Heidi La Bash, Cara Laney, William R. Lindsay, Elizabeth F. Loftus, L. E. Marshall, W. L. Marshall, James McGuire, Neil McKeganey, T. M. McMillan, Mary McMurran, Joav Merrick, Becky Milne, Joanne M. Nadkarni, Claire Nee, M. D. O’Brien, William O’Donohue, Darragh O’Neill, Jane Palmer, Adria Pearson, Derek Perkins, Devon L. L. Polaschek, Louise E. Porter, Charlotte C. Powell, Graham E. Powell, Martine Powell, Christine Puckering, Ethel Quayle, Vernon L. Quinsey, Marnie E. Rice, Randall Richardson-Vejlgaard, Richard Rogers, Louis B Schlesinger, Carolyn Semmler, G. A. Serran, Ralph C. Serin, John L. Taylor, Max Taylor, Brian Thomas-Peter, Paul A. Tiffin, Graham Towl, Rosie Travers, Arlene Vetere, Graham Wagstaff, Helen Wakeling, Fiona Warren, Brandon C. Welsh, David Wexler, Margaret Wilson, Dan Yarmey, Susan Young
- Edited by Jennifer M. Brown, London School of Economics and Political Science, Elizabeth A. Campbell, University of Glasgow
-
- Book:
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Published online:
- 06 July 2010
- Print publication:
- 29 April 2010, pp xix-xxiii
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
Chapter 3 - Peoples and Ages: The Mortal Soul Writ Large
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 67-102
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
The whole of the West no longer possesses the instincts out of which institutions grow, out of which a future grows: perhaps nothing antagonizes its “modern spirit” so much. One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called “freedom.” That which makes an institution an institution is despised, hated, repudiated: one fears the danger of a new slavery the moment the word “authority” is even spoken out loud. This is how far decadence has advanced in the value-instincts of our politicians, of our political parties: instinctively they prefer what disintegrates, what hastens the end.
(TI 9:39)Introduction
Nietzsche's experiment with vitalism precipitates his post-Zarathustran rejection of voluntarism. The general condition of an age or a people determines what human “agents” can and cannot do. As involuntary expressiosns of a particular age or people, individual agents have no choice but to reflect and reproduce the (relative) vitality of the age or people for which they stand. Representatives of a decadent age or people cannot help but express its constitutive decadence; the inauguration of a healthy epoch lies beyond the volitional resources at their disposal.
In his writings from the period 1885–88, Nietzsche consistently treats individual human beings as the embodied media through which an age or people expresses its native vitality.
Chapter 7 - Standing between Two Millennia: Intimations of the Antichrist
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 215-245
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
Just between us, it is not impossible that I am the first philosopher of the age – indeed, perhaps even a little more: something decisive and full of destiny, standing between two millennia. For such a rarefied position one continuously atones, through an ever growing, ever icier, and ever sharper seclusion.
Letter to Reinhardt von Seydlitz on 12 February 1888Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
(BGE 146)One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed the beast with wonder.
Revelations 13:3Nietzsche holds The Antichrist(ian) in such high regard because it comprises both a statement and a performance of his “revaluation of all values.” In The Antichrist(ian), he “detonates” his residual store of vitality, presenting himself as an “incarnate declaration of war” (AC 13). As a squanderer of expendable affect, he not only articulates an alternative to Christian morality, but embodies it as well. As we shall see, however, Nietzsche is not a reliable judge of his own expenditures. His “explosive” performance of revaluation draws upon reservoirs of expendable affect of which he is ignorant, and its public ramifications deviate dramatically from his self-serving accounts of them.
Introduction
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 1-6
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
And if a man today is praised for living “wisely” or “as a philosopher,” it hardly means more than “prudently and apart.” Wisdom – seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and trick for getting well out of a dangerous game. But the genuine philosopher – as it seems to us, my friends? – lives “unphilosophically” and “unwisely,” above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty of a hundred attempts [Versuchen] and temptations [Versuchungen] of life – he risks himself constantly, he plays the dangerous game.
(BGE 205)This book undertakes a critical appraisal of the political philosophy that informs the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche from the period 1885–88. The interpretive task I have set for myself is twofold: First, I reconstruct the revised critique of modernity that Nietzsche develops in the writings of this period; second, I situate his post-Zarathustran political thinking within the self-referential context of his revised critique of modernity. My specific focus is the “symptomatological” critique of modernity that emerges in this period, from such writings as Beyond Good and Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Twilight of the Idols (1888), The Antichrist(ian) (1888), The Case of Wagner (1888), and Ecce Homo (1888).
Nietzsche Titles: Sources and Abbreviations
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp xi-xii
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
Chapter 1 - Reading the Signs of the Times: Nietzsche contra Nietzsche
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 7-21
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
I am, in questions of décadence, the highest authority on earth.
Letter to Malwida von Meysenbug on 18 October 1888.Thus scribbled Nietzsche in the twilight of his sanity, just months before his storied collapse in Turin. Lest we dismiss this extraordinary claim as an epistolary exaggeration (designed, perhaps, as a private bit of braggadocio between close friends), let us take note of the following passage, which was written at approximately the same time as the letter just cited. Intending to demonstrate publicly the extent of his formidable “authority,” Nietzsche rhetorically asks, “Need I say after all this that in questions of décadence I am experienced?” (EH:wise 1).
Although Nietzsche had thoroughly researched the problem of decadence, his “authority” was not merely academic in nature. Nor was his “experience” in “questions of décadence” culled exclusively from the pseudoscientific literature that proliferated in Europe and Great Britain in the 1880s. The problem of decadence was not only the intellectual fiefdom he had recently staked out for himself, but his “physiological” destiny as well. Nietzsche, it seems, knew whereof he spoke: “I am, no less than Wagner, a child of this time; that is, a décadent. But I comprehended this, I resisted it. The philosopher in me resisted” (CW P).
Chapter 6 - Skirmishes of an Untimely Man: Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 178-214
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
But one misunderstands great human beings if one views them from the miserable perspective of some public use. That one cannot put them to any use, that in itself may belong to greatness.
(TI 9:50)I am no man, I am dynamite. … It is only beginning with me that the earth knows great politics.
(EH:destiny 1)Introduction
By virtually all accounts except Nietzsche's own, The Antichrist(ian) is a disappointment, even something of an embarrassment. His self-appointed executors prudently withheld the book from print, eventually publishing it in a selectively edited form. Once safely, if incompletely, in print, The Antichrist(ian) was summarily denounced as a product of its author's incipient madness.
Unlike many of Nietzsche's other “untimely” books, The Antichrist(ian) has not yet attracted a belated readership of serious scholars. Even Nietzsche's sympathetic readers have largely ignored (or apologized for) The Antichrist(ian), treating his critique of Christianity as an inessential (and perhaps malignant) outgrowth of his more promising philosophical insights. Apparently concluding that a domestication of Nietzsche's thought is a fair (and perhaps desirable) price to pay for his newly accorded status as a respectable philosopher, his contemporary champions have gently nudged this angry book into a shadowy, liminal position on the periphery of his oeuvre.
Acknowledgments
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp ix-x
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
Frontmatter
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp i-vi
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
Conclusion: Odysseus Bound?
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 246-262
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
But I with my sharp sword cut into small bits a great round cake of wax, and kneaded it with my strong hands, and soon the wax grew warm, forced by the strong pressure and the rays of the lord Helios Hyperion. Then I anointed with this [wax] the ears of all my comrades in turn; and they bound me in the ship hand and foot, upright in the step of the mast, and made the ropes fast at the ends to the mast itself; and themselves sitting down smote the grey sea with their oars.
The Odyssey, XII. 172–179I am still waiting for a philosophical physician in the exceptional sense of that word – one who has to pursue the problem of the total health of a people, time, race or of humanity – to muster the courage to push my suspicion to its limits and to risk the proposition: what was at stake in all philosophizing hitherto was not at all “truth” but something else – let us say, health, future, growth, power, life.
The Gay Science, Preface, Section 2 (emphasis added)How clever was Herr Nietzsche? Clever enough to equate morality with diet (EH:clever 1), apparently, and to prefer the lusty naturalism of Rossini to the constipated gravity of “German music” (EH:clever 7).
Chapter 2 - The Economy of Decadence
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 22-66
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
All great problems demand great love, and of that only strong, round, secure spirits who have a firm grip on themselves are capable. It makes the most telling difference whether a thinker has a personal relationship to his problems and finds in them his destiny, his distress, and his greatest happiness, or an “impersonal” one, meaning that he can do no better than to touch them and grasp them with the antennae of cold, curious thought.
(GS 345)Nothing has preoccupied me more profoundly than the problem of décadence – I had reasons.
(CW P)The profundity that Nietzsche attaches to his preoccupation with “the problem of décadence” may strike even his most loyal readers as exaggerated. Not until 1888 does he import the French term décadence into his philosophical vocabulary, and only in the flickering twilight of his sanity, in such testimonial books as Ecce Homo and The Case of Wagner, does he explicitly pronounce his own decay.
Nietzsche's pronouncement of his own decadence is, moreover, as obscure as it is candid. Like most of the themes and topics that dominate his later writings, “decadence” receives neither a formal introduction nor a sustained analysis. He apparently believes that decadence afflicts ages, epochs, peoples, and individuals, but he nowhere ventures a detailed account of the phenomenon of decay.
Index
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 263-267
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols
- Daniel W. Conway
-
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997
-
This 1997 work is a book-length treatment of the unique nature and development of Nietzsche's post-Zarathustran political philosophy. This later political philosophy is set in the context of the critique of modernity that Nietzsche advances in the years 1885–1888, in such texts as Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, The Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo. In this light Nietzsche's own diagnosis of the ills of modernity is subject to the same criticism that he himself levelled against previous philosophies; that it is an involuntary symptom of the age it represents. Nietzsche is seen to be aware of his own decadence and of his complicity with the very tendencies that he dissects and deplores. By relating the political philosophy, the critique of modernity and the theory of decadence Daniel Conway has written a powerful book about Nietzsche's own appreciation of the limitations of both his writing style and of his famous prophetic 'stance'.
Contents
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp vii-viii
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
Chapter 5 - Parastrategesis: Esotericism for Decadents
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 143-177
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is growing continually, owing to the constantly false, namely shallow, interpretation of every word, every step, every sign of life he gives.
(BGE 40)The truth speaks out of me. – But my truth is terrible; for so far one has called lies truth.
(EH:destiny 1)Nietzsche's post-Zarathustran writings are not innocent of the grandiose political ambitions for which he is infamous. In fact, his strategic aims generally survive the disruptions introduced by his complicity in the decadence of modernity. He consequently targets for elimination the greatest obstacle to the founding of a postmodern, tragic age: Christian morality. The successful prosecution of his rebellion against Christianity, he believes, will enable the “philosophers of the future” to legislate against the anti-affective animus of Christian morality and to install a naturalistic alternative to the ascetic ideal.
Owing to his own decadence, however, as well as that of modernity as a whole, he must revise the terms of his contribution to the attainment of this goal. His depleted strategic resources are not sufficient on their own to ensure the success of his ambitious campaign against Christian morality. In order for him to be “born posthumously” as the Antichrist, he will require the assistance of readers who can extend his influence into the next millennium, at which time his “untimely” teachings might descend upon receptive ears.
Chapter 4 - Et tu, Nietzsche?
- Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University
-
- Book:
- Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
- Published online:
- 03 December 2009
- Print publication:
- 13 May 1997, pp 103-142
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
Nietzsche's … task lies elsewhere: beyond all the codes of past, present, and future, to transmit something that does not and will not allow itself to be codified. To transmit it to a new body, to invent a body that can receive it and spill it forth; a body that would be our own, the earth's, or even something written.
Gilles Deleuze, “Nomad Thought.”Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy; around the demi-god, into a satyr-play [Satyrspiel]; and around God – what? perhaps into “world?”
(BGE 150)Nietzsche's critique of modernity raises more questions than it adequately answers, and perhaps none is more vexing than the question of self-reference. Any claim to expertise in matters of decadence must, by its very nature, call itself into question, for only decadent philosophers formulate theories of decadence. That Nietzsche has an account of decadence thus stands as sufficient confirmation of its self-referential ambit and application.
As we have seen, however, Nietzsche himself is not unduly disturbed by his complicity in the besetting decay of modernity. He openly pronounces his decadence, attributing his superlative critical standpoint to his “dual series of experiences” with decadence and health, which have granted him “access to apparently separate worlds” (EH:wise 3).