Research report: Claudia Nitschke: Metabolic Dynamics and Private Property in the Long Eighteenth Century: Locke’s Idea of Transformative Forces and Their Reception in German Literature

12 September 2025

Prof. Dr. Claudia Nitschke was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2024 to January 2025. A short report on her research on the topic »Metabolic Dynamics and Private Property in the Long Eighteenth Century: Locke’s Idea of Transformative Forces and Their Reception in German Literature« is now available online.

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