Forces of Nature: Dynamism and Agency in German Romanticism

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Forces of Nature

Dynamism and Agency in German Romanticism

Edited by: Adrian Renner and Frederike Middelhoff

Volume 4 in the series Imaginarien der Kraft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783827

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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. German Romantic literature, science, and philosophy – from Schelling and Novalis to Günderrode and Hölderlin – pondered interrelated notions of forces considered as dynamic and continually active in nature – forces which, in turn, also appeared to shape human actions, social structures, and cultural developments. This volume explores the points of reference for, approaches to, and afterlives of Romantic conceptions and representations of natural forces at the intersection of natural sciences and cultural imaginaries.

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Adrian Renner, DFG-Forschungsgruppe "Imaginarien der Kraft", Universität Hamburg; Frederike Middelhoff, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Dynamism, Agency, Interaction—An Introduction to Forces of Nature in German Romantic Literature and Sciences Adrian Renner and Frederike Middelhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Patterns, Practices, Ethics
“Bewegung[s]Veränderungskunst”. Mechanics and the Force of Rhythm ca. 1800 (Klopstock, Sulzer, A.W. Schlegel, Novalis) Elisa Ronzheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
The Moral Force of Art. Karl Philipp Moritz on Formative Imitation and Bildung Carolin Rocks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Practices of Translation, or: How Literature Became the Vital Force of Life Marius Reisener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Imagination, Sensation, Mediation
Dynamic Perceptions. Forces of Nature and Powers of the Senses in Schelling, Novalis and Günderrode Adrian Renner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Daimonic Energies in Hölderlin’s Tod des Empedokles Joanna Raisbeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
“Fire Machines”. Heinrich von Ofterdingen and the Transformation of Forces Cornelia Zumbusch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Bodies, Powers, Conflicts
Thirsting for Blood. Romanticizing vis medicatrix naturae in Romantic Medicine and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Ignaz Denner Frederike Middelhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Nature’s Say. Negotiating the Human-Nature-Continuum in Ludwig Tieck’s Der Runenberg Laura Isengard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Homeopathy’s Dynamic Forces Alice Kuzniar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: scholars in Visual Studies, Art History, Philosophy, Literary Studies
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: German Romanticism; agency of nature; forces of nature around 1800; Philosophy; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110783827

Paperback

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110783773