Forces of Nature dynamism and Agency in German Romanticism
By the end of the 18th century, notions of "forces of nature" (Naturkräfte) were increasingly discussed across disciplinary bounds: attraction and repulsion, vital forces and electric fluids, formative drives and biological organisms were examined as forces linked to ‘natural’ processes. G...
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter
2022, ©2022
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| Series: | Imaginarien der Kraft
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Content
- Acknowledgements
- Dynamism, Agency, Interaction-An Introduction to Forces of Nature in German Romantic Literature and Sciences
- Patterns, Practices, Ethics
- "Bewegung[s]Veränderungskunst". Mechanics and the Force of Rhythm ca. 1800 (Klopstock, Sulzer, A.W. Schlegel, Novalis)
- The Moral Force of Art. Karl Philipp Moritz on Formative Imitation and Bildung
- Practices of Translation, or: How Literature Became the Vital Force of Life
- Imagination, Sensation, Mediation
- Dynamic Perceptions. Forces of Nature and Powers of the Senses in Schelling, Novalis and Günderrode
- Daimonic Energies in Hölderlin's Tod des Empedokles
- "Fire Machines". Heinrich von Ofterdingen and the Transformation of Forces
- Bodies, Powers, Conflicts
- Thirsting for Blood. Romanticizing vis medicatrix naturae in Romantic Medicine and E.T.A. Hoffmann's Ignaz Denner
- Nature's Say. Negotiating the Human-Nature-Continuum in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg
- Homeopathy's Dynamic Forces
- List of Contributors
- Index