About
This is a website devoted to things I paint and draw. I have studied drawing under Yu Kemin (于克敏) at Yunnan Arts Institute (云南艺术学院) and painting under Stephan Balleux at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
I also write (poetry, fiction and academic prose). Most recent is the book Feng Yongxus förmåga att gråta. I also have a few academic degrees, most recently a PhD in philosophy from The University of Hong Kong. See below for some of my written work.
Contact me at hello[@]sanjasarman.com
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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
- “Double Motivation, Gods and Psychic Organs in the Iliad,” in American Journal of Philology (2025).
- “Essence, Existence and Being: An Inconsistency in Spinoza’s Metaphysics,” in The Review of Metaphysics (2023).
- Review of Demystifying Emotions – A Typology of Theories in Psychology and Philosophy. AGNES MOORS, 2022.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. i–xviii + 382 pp, £95.00 (hb) in Journal of Applied Philosophy (2022).
- “Spinoza’s Evanescent Self” in Journal of Modern Philosophy (2022).
- “Spinoza’s Infinite Shortcut to the Contingent Appearances of Things” in Das Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2021).
- “Infinity in Spinoza’s Therapy of the Passions” in Infinity in Early Modernism, eds. Ohad Nachtomy and Reed Winegar: Springer (2018).
PROSE
- Feng Yongxus förmåga att gråta, Albert Bonniers förlag, 2025.
- Lettere delle piante agli esseri umani, translated by Giovanni Agnoloni, Ortica Editrice, 2023.
- “Avsked från vägvisaren till underjorden – en kommentar till Dante,” in Nya Argus (2022).
- “Emerald Eyes,” in The Cosmic Bulletin II, published by the Institute of the Cosmos (2021).
- “Letters from Plants to Humans,” in The Cosmic Bulletin, published by the Institute of the Cosmos in collaboration with The Riga International Biennal of Contemporary Art 2, RIBOCA2 ( 2020).
CONFERENCE PAPERS
- “Pity, horses and unwilling brides in the Iliad“, Human-Animal-Studies in Classics: Emotions, University of Zurich (September 2025).
- « Vérité de ‘Je suis Dieu’, fausseté de ‘Dieu est moi’ – les enjeux de l’idéntité asymétrique chez Spinoza » Spinoza à Paris, Paris 8 (May 2025). Invited talk.
- “Double Motivation, Gods and Psychic organs in the Iliad,” History of Philosophy Research Group, Uppsala University (November 2024).
- “Essence, Existence, Being: Spinoza at the Crossroads between Platonism and Eleaticism” (Two is One, Nondualism in Metaphysics, Aesthetics and Society), organised by Rijksuniversiteit Gronignen (August 2024). (Invited talk.)
- Commentator on the paper “Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century” presented by Mogens Laerke at Colloquium on Early Modern European Thought, Uppsala University (March 2023).
- “Spinoza’s Infinite Shortcut to Contingent Appearance” at Spinoza and Early Modern Philosophy: A Virtual Workshop from John Hopkins University (November 2022).
- “Spinoza’s Negation Theory of Error and its Metaphysical Foundation” at Septième Séminaire de philosophie moderne à Bruxelles: “L’épistémologie de l’erreur à l’époque moderne”, Université Libre de Bruxelles (December 2019).
- “Spinoza on Infinity and Contingency” at Department Seminar, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong (January 2019).
- “Spinoza and Leibniz on the Advantages of Having an Infinitely Unfamiliar Mind” at Seminario del Centro Interdipartimentale di studi su Descartes e il Seicento in collaborazione con il Centre d’études cartésiennes Paris-Sorbonne, Università del Salento, Lecce (March 2018).
- “Spinoza’s Dual Concept of Perfection” at Spinozanum Collegianum II, University of Groningen, Groningen (July 2017).
- “Spinoza’s Theology of the Infinite and its Role in the Love of Fate” at Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy – The NYC Workshop, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem (June 2016).