Forces of nature : dynamism and agency in German Romanticism / edited by Adrian Renner and Frederike Middelhoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Middelhoff, Frederike, editor.

Renner, Adrian, editor.

Series:

Imaginarien der Kraft

Imaginarien der Kraft ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Um 1800 diskutierte man über Naturkräfte in verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Zusammenhängen: Anziehung und Abstoßung, Lebenskräfte und elektrische Ströme, der "Bildungstrieb" und biologische Organismen wurden als Kräfte untersucht, die sich auf „natürliche" Prozesse zurückführen lassen. Literatur, Wissenschaft und Philosophie der deutschsprachigen Romantik von Schelling bis zu Günderrode und Hölderlin arbeiteten sich an Konzepten von Kräften ab, die als dynamisch und in beständiger Tätigkeit begriffen wurden – Kräfte, die auch menschliche Handlungen, soziale Strukturen und kulturelle Entwicklungen einzuschließen schienen. Der Band erkundet Vor- und Darstellungen von Naturkräften in der Romantik an der Schnittstelle von Naturwissenschaft und kulturellen Vorstellungswelten.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Renner, Adrian Forces of Nature

ISBN:

9783110783827

3110783827

OCLC:

1341443556