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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. He currently explores the reception of Schopenhauer by Freud, Nietzsche and orientalists, as reflected in his most recent publications and conference papers:

"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.