Sandra Shapshay

Current projects include:

• An Aesthetics of Monuments and Memorials
• Reconstructing Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics
• The Oxford Critical Guide to ‘The World as Will and Representation’

Graduate courses:

• Aesthetics and Nature
• Kant’s 3^rd Critique and its legacy
• Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
• Art and Morality
• 19^th c. Continental Philosophy Survey

Representative Publications:

• “What is the Monumental?” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, May 2021
• “A Two-Tiered Theory of the Sublime” British Journal of Aesthetics, Feb. 2021 DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayaa047
• Reconstructing Schopenhauer’s Ethics: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (January 2019) 248 pages.
• Guest editor with Levi Tenen of a Special Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, “The Good, the Beautiful and the Green: Environmental Aesthetics and Ethics” (volume 76, 4, fall 2018) pp. 391-7.
• “Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics and the Neglect of the Sublime” British Journal of Aesthetics 53:2, April 2013, pp. 181-198.
• “The Problem and the Promise of the Sublime” in Suffering Art Gladly ed. Jerrold Levinson (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013). pp. 84-107.  
• “Schopenhauer’s Transformation of the Kantian Sublime” Kantian Review 17:3, 2012, pp. 479-511.
• “The Problem with the Problem of Tragedy: Schopenhauer’s Solution Revisited” British Journal of Aesthetics 52: 2012, pp. 17-32.
• “Did Schopenhauer Neglect the ‘Neglected Alternative’ Objection?” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 93: 3, 2011, pp. 321–348.  
• “Poetic Intuition and the Bounds of Sense: Metaphor and Metonymy in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy” European Journal of Philosophy 16 (2), special issue on Schopenhauer, ed. Christopher Janaway and Alex Neill, August 2008, pp. 211-229.