Rate My Professor Stephan Atzert

Atzert's research focuses on the reception of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy, examining its influence on the development of psychoanalysis through figures like Sigmund Freud, as well as its role in the European understanding of Buddhism, particularly via K.E. Neumann's translations of Pali discourses. He is the author of two monographs: Schopenhauer in the Works of Thomas Bernhard: The Critical Appropriation of Schopenhauer's Philosophy in Thomas Bernhard's Late Novels (1999, Rombach Verlag) and Im Schatten Schopenhauers: Nietzsche, Deussen und Freud (2015, Königshausen & Neumann), later translated into English as Schopenhauer’s Legacy: Nietzsche, Deussen, and Freud (2023). His extensive publication record includes chapters in prestigious volumes such as The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer ('Schopenhauer and the unconscious,' 2020), Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation': A Critical Guide ('Maja and Nieban in The World as Will and Representation,' 2022), and Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought ('Replacing pantheism: the principles behind the Principium Individuationis, the Pañcaupādānakkhandha, and the Paṭicca Samuppāda,' 2024). Atzert also translates Buddhist texts, including Mit dem rechten Verstehen: Phänomenologische Erkundungen der Pāli-Suttas (2022), and serves as spokesperson for the Australasian Division of the Schopenhauer Society, contributing significantly to international Schopenhauer scholarship.