Benjamin H\u00f6ijer (1767\u20131812) is often described as the most brilliant thinker in the history of Swedish philosophy, but he has long been under-researched. This project will carry out the first study that brings his aesthetics into the international research field on German Idealism, the philosophical movement that developed around the Baltic Sea and of which H\u00f6ijer was a Swedish part. After a pioneering interpretation in my dissertation “Det absoluta och det gemensamma. Benjamin H\u00f6ijers konstfilosofi”, I will further explore H\u00f6ijer\u2019s aesthetics through a comparative reading of the great German philosophers of his time. This will not only provide crucial knowledge about this understudied philosopher, but also new perspectives on what is perhaps the most influential period in the history of aesthetics. The project will explore two general themes: art and politics, and aesthetics and metaphysics. H\u00f6ijer\u2019s deeply political aesthetics will be read in comparison with Friedrich Schiller\u2019s seminal texts on art and politics, and his critique of a \u2018new mythology\u2019 will be compared with this idea in F.W.J. Schelling. H\u00f6ijer\u2019s ideas on the relation between art and the absolute, where suffering and sympathy are paramount, will be contrasted with Schelling\u2019s and G.W.F. Hegel\u2019s influential and more rationalist account of the relation between aesthetics and metaphysics. In this way, the project will broaden the conception of German Idealism and challenge its conventional geographical scope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-5408","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n