Seminar by Renate Dürr (Tübingen). The German Jesuit mission journal Der neue Weltbott appeared between 1726 and 1761. Comprising texts, maps, and illustrations, its aim was both the edification of readers and the transfer of knowledge in arts and crafts, nature, and law. Taking the journal’s attempts at a precise localization and representation of knowledge as its starting point, the talk will seek to analyse storytelling more generally as a principle of (Jesuit) epistemology.
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