German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Lukács to Strauss - Paperback

by Julian Young (Author)

Julian Young examines and assesses the way in which some of the major German thinkers of the 20th Century reacted to the challenges posed by the nature of modernity, the failure of liberalism and the concept of decline.

Author Biography

Julian Young is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Wake Forest University, USA, and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of fifteen books including Schopenhauer (Routledge, 2005); Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, which won the Association of American Publishers' 2010 PROSE award for philosophy; The Philosophy of Tragedy: from Plato to Zizek (2013); and The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (2nd edition 2014, Routledge).