From Genius to Madman in Just One Day?

Nietzsche’s writings produce as much debate today, as they did when they first appeared on the scene.  The writings toward the end of his sanity are typically debated the most hotly, as some debaters tend to downplay these works, due to his rapid decline into imbecility.  Their stance being that Nietzsche’s insanity was not a sudden occurence, but had been accelerating during the time he was most prolific.

UMass-Amherst geobiologist Lynn Margulis thinks that Nietzsche’s sudden descent into madness did occur in one day, and has stated so in the current issue of Daedalus, as reported in Boston.com.

"But on January 3, 1889 in Turin,” Margulis concludes, channeling Vincent Price, “armies of revived spirochetes munched on his brain tissue. The consequence was the descent of Nietzsche the genius into Nietzsche the madman in less than one day."

“Bugs in the belfry"

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by on 11/30 at 06:43 AM

  1. I see where the NSF got its funding cut.  This surely didn’t help…

    In 2002, the National Science Foundation, recognizing the need to integrate the earth and life sciences, established a BIOGEOSCIENCE program

    Can you say Gaia?

    Posted by  on  11/30  at  11:27 AM

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