Ortrun Schulz

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Ortrun Schulz (born February 27, 1960 in Hanover ) is a German philosopher and book author. From 1992 to 1994 she was a board member of the Schopenhauer Society and from 1992 to 2005 she was editor of the Schopenhauer yearbook . Since June 1998 she has been the contact person for the “International Schopenhauer Mailing List” in collaboration with Yasuo Kamata ( Kwansei Gakuin University , Japan). She has been offering philosophical life counseling since 2005.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1978 at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium in Hanover, she studied English and fine arts at the Hanover University of Education and the subjects of horticulture, German, English and philosophy at the University of Hanover . In February 1986 she completed her Magister Artium (MA) in Philosophy and English Linguistics at the University of Hanover. The theme of the work was: The Centrifugal Tendency of Thought: An Inquiry into the Place of Abstraction in Semiotic Epistemology by Charles S. Peirce. In March 1993 she received her PhD in Dr. phil. in philosophy. The subject of the dissertation was will and intellect in Schopenhauer and Spinoza.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Will and intellect in Schopenhauer and Spinoza. Dissertation . (= European university publications; Philosophy. XX, 405). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1993.
  • Schopenhauer's Critique of Hope. (= European university publications; Philosophy. XX, 648). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2002.
  • Schopenhauer's Critique of Hope. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014.
  • Schopenhauer's biophilosophy. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014.
  • Schopenhauer's loans from Spinoza. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014.
  • Criticism of hope . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2018.

Articles and lectures

  • Lecture on February 27, 1992: Teleology: An Introduction to Spinoza and Schopenhauer. Philosophy Department, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
  • April 1993 invitation of the North American Division of the Schopenhauer Society to Chicago to present my article Schopenhauer's Fundamental View and Spinoza. Funding approved by the DAAD.
  • Schopenhauer's Spinozist basic view. In: Schopenhauer yearbook. 74: 51-71 (1993).
  • Schopenhauer's ethics - the consequence of Spinoza's metaphysics? In: Schopenhauer yearbook. 76: 133-149 (1995).
  • Causa, seu ratio: Schopenhauer on the identification of the ground of knowledge and cause in Spinoza. Lecture at the conference “Spinoza in Germany 2: 19th Century”, 4. – 7. October 1995, Werner Reimers Foundation, Bad Homburg vdH Accepted for publication.
  • Mathematics in Philosophy: The Geometric Method in Spinoza. Lecture at the mathematics didactic colloquium at the University of Hanover on January 9, 1997.
  • The criticism of hope in Spinoza and Schopenhauer. In: Schopenhauer yearbook. 80 (1999), pp. 125-146.
  • Schopenhauer as enlightener of the irrational. Lecture given at the German-Polish conference on Schopenhauer's philosophy in Karpacz, Poland, 21. – 23. September 2000. In: Dieter Birnbacher, Andreas Lorenz, Leon Miodonski (eds.): Schopenhauer in context. (= Contributions to Schopenhauer's philosophy. 5). Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2002, pp. 53–68.
  • Baruch de Spinoza. In: Daniel Schubbe, Matthias Koßler (eds.): Schopenhauer manual. Life - work - effect. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2014, pp. 211–214.

Reviews

  • Review by Robert Snel: Het Hermetic Universum: Nietzsches verhouding tot Spinoza en de modern ontology. Eburon, Delft 1989.
  • Review by Roger Henrard: Nietzsche en Spinoza, vreemde bewanten. Brill, Leiden 1989. In: Studia Spinozana. 7 (1991), pp. 344-349.

Translations

  • Pierre Macherey : Spinoza as an idealist in Hegel. translated from French by Ortrun Schulz. In: Manfred Walther (ed.): Spinoza and German Idealism . Proceedings of the Spinoza Society. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1991.
  • Warren Shibles: Our Emotional World: A Critical Analysis for Young and Old . From the American by Ortrun Schulz and Hannelore Zetzmann. Lermann, Mainz 1995.
  • Warren Shibles: What is Time? A critical analysis for young and old . From the American by Ortrun Schulz and Hannelore Zetzmann. Lermann, Mainz 1997.
  • Yasuo Kamata: Platonic Idea and the World of Perception. From the German by Ortrun Schulz. Translation of “Platonic Idea and the Vivid World at Schopenhauer”, lecture on May 8th at the International Schopenhauer Anniversary Congress from June 6th to 8th. May 1988 in Frankfurt am Main
  • Manfred Walther (Ed.): Baruch de Spinoza: Descriptions of life and documents. (= Philosophical Library. Volume 96b). Meiner, Hamburg 1998. (Translation of most of the documents (cf. p. XIV))
  • as translator and editor: Erhard Schulz: Farewell to East Prussia. A German Boy's Experiences before and during World War II. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015.

Memberships

  • Schopenhauer Society eV Frankfurt am Main
  • North American Division of the Schopenhauer Society
  • International Schopenhauer Mailing List
  • Giordano Bruno Foundation

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Ortrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and freelance writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover