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Dr
Stephan Atzert, B.A.
(Hons), PhD (Melbourne), MEd (Monash)
Stephan
Atzert is Lecturer in German in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural
Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia. He studied German and
English Literature, Linguistics and Dutch and wrote his PhD on the appropriation
of Schopenhauer in the late novels of the modernist
Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, published as Schopenhauer bei Thomas
Bernhard. Zur literarischen Verwendung von Philosophie. Freiburg: Rombach,
1999.
"Zwei
Aufsätze über Leben und Tod: Sigmund Freuds "Jenseits des Lustprinzips"
und Arthur Schopenhauers "Transscendente Spekulation über die anscheinende
Absichtlichkeit im Schicksal des Einzelnen". (forthcoming in: Schopenhauer
Jahrbuch, 2005)
“Elements
of Schopenhauer's Reception by Western Indologists and Comparativists.”
Schopenhauer
and Indian Thought, hosted by the Indian Division of the Schopenhauer Society,
New Delhi, India, 4-7 February 2005.
“The
Role of Bodily Sensation in the Pali Canon and in Schopenhauer's Writings.”
Schopenhauer
and Far-Eastern Philosophy: A Conference jointly hosted by the Schopenhauer
Research Centre and the Dept. Of Asian Studies, University of Mainz, Germany,
July 2005.
He
also has an interest in the relationship of intellectuals to power, which
resulted in a series of papers presented at AAEH (Australian Association of
European Historians) conferences. In 2004, he co-edited their proceedings (with
Andrew Bonnell) Europe's Pasts and Presents. Proceedings of the 14th Biennial
Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians Australian
Humanities Press 2004.