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- Title
Messenger Service: Hubert Fichte Writes History.
- Authors
Krauthausen, Karin
- Abstract
Following his early death, Hubert Fichte’s publication project Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit (The History of Sensitivity) remained a fragment. The reader of the posthumous edition is not only confronted with a variety of genres (novel, glosses, paralipomena), but also with a programmatic heterogeneity, as well as with multiple correspondences between the different parts of the project. Connecting the various volumes is the theme of Empfindlichkeit (sensibility, sensitivity), whose anthropologically oriented project traces a path across the three continents Europe, America, and Africa, both historically and in the present. This paper asks what kind of historiography the various writing formats give rise to. Points of reference are Fichte’s narratives about the Casa das Minas, a temple of African-American religions in Brazil, and the assignment given to him by the priestesses of the temple to travel as a messenger to Abomey in West Africa. By examining this messenger service from multiple perspectives, Fichte’s conceptions of reality and History should be addressed in relation to four essential aspects: the engagement for the transmission of a foreign message (the assignment), the scholarly documentation of the history of a religious institution (Fichte’s Das Haus der Mina in São Luiz de Maranhão), the fictional narration with references to a historical setting (Fichte’s Explosion), and the consideration of anecdotal transmission as a complementary ‘counter-history’ (Fichte’s “Afrika” in Psyche).
- Subjects
SAO Luis do Maranhao (Brazil); HISTORIOGRAPHY; EARLY death; RELIGIOUS institutions; NARRATION; DESKS
- Publication
Colloquia Germanica, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 3/4, p239
- ISSN
0010-1338
- Publication type
Article