In 1914 Theodor Haecker presented Kierkegaard to the German-speaking public as a social critic, when he published the translation of a fragment from Kierkegaard’s A Literary Review (1846). The translation inspired several influential authors of the interwar period, who commented on the condition of the society of that time. One of them was Karl Jaspers who believed that Kierkegaard’s views were more relevant in the 20th century than they were in the 19th century. In his work The Spiritual Condition of the Age (1931/1932) Jaspers adopted several motifs from Kierkegaard’s critique of society. In the present paper the author examines thematic points of intersection of Kierkegaard’s reflections on the public and Jaspers’ reflections on the mass. He elucidates also Kierkegaard’s and Jaspers’ views on excellence, envy, levelling and modern media. Both thinkers provide original and incisive analyses of the decadent features of modern society.
Changes in fitness components including larval stage duration, relative growth rate (RGR), and mass of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar L. (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae), were investigated in caterpillars fed a synthetic diet with or without a cadmiumsupplement (10, 30, 100, 250 Fg Cd/g dry food weight). Morphometric changes of large protocerebral dorsomedial A2 neurosecretory neurons, their nuclei and the electrophoresis profiles of brain proteins were analyzed in the 4th instar gypsy moths fed the examined diets. The duration of the fourth larval instars were prolonged and RGR and body mass reduced if the caterpillars were fed diets containing high concentrations of cadmium(100 and 250 Fg). The size of large A2 dorsomedial neurosecretory neurons and their nuclei were significantly higher in larvae fed the diets supplemented with 10, 100 and 250 Fg Cd. A large amount of neurosecretory material appeared in dorsomedial neurosecretory neurons in larvae fed diets with 100 and 250 Fg Cd. Differences in larval brain protein profiles in the region ofmolecularmass ranges (Mr) of 98kDa, 46kDa and 3.4-6.1 kDa were identified in the experimental groups.
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