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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.