Jan-Paul Sandmann is a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at Harvard’s Department of Government. Drawing on the thought of Thomas Mann and Theodor W. Adorno, his dissertation project “A Crisis in Art” examines the role art could and should play in our lives. At Harvard, he is a Graduate Affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and has assisted in teaching a course on the German philosophical tradition from Nietzsche to Habermas, as well as undergraduate and graduate-level classes in moral and political philosophy. He holds a B.Sc. in Government and Economics and an M.Sc. in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, both from the London School of Economics. During the course of his studies, he has received scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Theodore H Ashford Graduate Fellowship, Harvard’s Center for European Studies, the Safra Center for Ethics, and the Society of Friends of Bayreuth.
