I have pursued the three main objectives of the project so far, following the proposed research plan and discussing it with my supervisors as we went along.
Specifically, I conducted a study on the relationship between art and politics within classical German philosophy, outlining a mapping of various positions and their characteristics (e.g. art as education, art as utopian rethinking, art as orientation, art as social criticism).
Within this broad framework, I focused on certain concepts from the subsequent debate, highlighting their derivation from the discussions of the time. I investigated both concepts envisaged by the project (e.g. the death of art, the aestheticization of politics and the politicization of art, the relationship between form and content, and socially engaged art) and concepts that emerged as particularly relevant in the course of the research (e.g. representation, global literature, and irony).
Finally, I am bringing together the material that has emerged from research on the 19th and 20th centuries with contemporary academic and public discussions, attempting to provide further tools for analysis and possible solutions. At the moment, I am focusing on the concept of representation, understood as both artistic representation and political representation, as a concept that can synthesize a whole series of arguments on the subject.
It included a reflection on methodologies, which led to an in-depth examination of some of them (such as conceptual history and the relationship between close and distant reading), and on the interaction between the different disciplines involved.
This work was carried out through research on primary and secondary literature, discussions in seminars and conferences, and opportunities for meetings and networking with researchers at an international level.
