Julian Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5684-1182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza 1
Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age. In fact, I argue, Schopenhauer's Spinozism is at least as deep as that of any of his contemporaries: his debt to Spinoza, I claim, is deeper than his more obvious …
David Bather Woods, Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist
Charles Taylor, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
Christopher Janaway, Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will to Life
Peter Poellner: Value in Modernity: The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Musil
The Uses and Misuses of History: Reflections on Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation
John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalism
German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Dilthey to Honneth
The path taken by German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought, by turns radical and conservative and secular and religious. In this outstanding introduction, German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Dilthey to Honneth—the third and final volume in his trilogy—Julian Young examines the work of eight German philosophers and theologians of the period. He discusses their …
German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Lukács to Strauss
The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought. In this outstanding and engaging introduction, a companion volume to his German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Weber to Heidegger, Julian Young examines and assesses the way in which some of the major German thinkers of the period reacted, often in starkly contrasting ways, to the challenges posed by the na…
Arendt
Apart from Simone de Beauvoir and perhaps Iris Murdoch, Hannah Arendt is the only really famous dead woman philosopher, certainly the only famous dead woman political philosopher. The Human Condition is not, Arendt insists, a study of human nature. The reason is that there is no such thing as human nature. What motivates Arendt&s;s project is the fact that modern man has initiated what she calls a &s;Promethean revolt&s; against the human conditi…
Marcuse
Together with Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse was a member of the first Frankfurt School. Almost entirely ignored by Jürgen Habermas, he is nonetheless an important thinker, one who thinks outside the square that endows Habermas&s; philosophy with its somewhat quotidian quality. He is also a generous thinker, someone who thinks well of the human capacity for love. For Marcuse, as for the first Frankfurt School in general, his e…
Early Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was born in 1889 into a peasant family in Messkirch, a small town in the Black Forest region of southwest Germany. Save for annual visits to Provence in the 1950s and 1960s, and two visits to Greece, he spent almost his entire life in the region of his birth. Being and Time is the masterwork of Heidegger&s;s early period, the only &s;big book&s; in the style of the German philosophical tradition that he wrote for publication. Hei…
Afterword
Max Weber identifies two pathologies of post-Enlightenment modernity: loss of freedom and loss of meaning. Loss of freedom consists in our reduction to robotic Berufsmenschen. Loss of meaning consists in ethical &s;polytheism&s;, our loss, not of meaning as such, but of shared meaning, the loss of a shared conception of the good life, the loss of community. The notions of &s;tradition&s;, &s;homeland&s;, &s;people&s;, and &s;community&s; were hij…
Later Heidegger
The reason one speaks of &s;early Heidegger&s; and &s;later Heidegger&s; is that Martin Heidegger himself did. Beginning in 1930 but with a second, crucial change of direction in 1936, there occurred, he says, a &s;turning&s; in both the &s;what&s; and the &s;how&s; of his thinking. One of his important statements about being is that it constitutes the &s;hidden essence of truth&s;. To fail to stand in the truth of being is to be engulfed by what…
Husserl
Edmund Husserl was born in Prossnitz in Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now part of the Czech Republic. Classifying philosophers in terms of Marx&s;s aphorism about understanding and changing, one can say that whereas the Frankfurt thinkers are all &s;changers&s;, Husserl returns us to the mould of understanding for its own sake, the mould of Max Horkheimer&s;s &s;traditional theory&s;. Phenomenology, as David Woodruff smith us…
Habermas
Born in 1929, Jürgen Habermas, eighty-eight as continues a vigorous public life as the unofficial philosopher laureate of the German Federal Republic – of, indeed, the European Union as a whole. The Enlightenment, he observes, is the &s;unfinished project of modernity&s;. He accepts that the two, as he calls them, &s;pathologies&s; identified by his predecessors do indeed characterize the modern age and are indeed the product of rationalization. …
Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer&s;s magnum opus, Truth and Method, which appeared in 1960, is the principle exposition of a version of phenomenology commonly referred to as &s;hermeneutics&s;. Hermeneutics is the art of interpretation. It takes its name from Hermes, the messenger of the gods. The aim of hermeneutics, all practitioners agree, is Verstehen, &s;understanding&s;, understanding of texts. Modern hermeneuticists, however, extend the scope of hermene…
Horkheimer and Adorno
In 1930, Horkheimer became director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, and also professor of philosophy at Frankfurt University to which the Institute was attached. Apart from Adorno, the most famous of those who were more or less closely connected to the &s;first Frankfurt School&s; of &s;critical theory&s; were Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and the psychoanalyst Eric Fromm. As both Jews and Marxists, the members of the Frank…
Weber
Max Weber wore many hats. Principally he is remembered as a sociologist, as, indeed, one of the founders of sociology as an academic discipline. In business schools he is remembered as a founder of &s;management science&s;. But he was also deeply engaged with nineteenth-century German philosophy, above all with Nietzsche. The principal manifestation of the rationalization of society is what Weber calls &s;bureaucratization&s;. The worker is, of c…
German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Weber to Heidegger
The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of hte most exciting, diverse and controversial periods in the history of human thought. It is widely studied and its legacy is hotly contested. In this outstanding introduction, Julian Young explains and assesses the two dominant traditions in modern German philosophy - critical theory and phenomenology - by examining key thinkers
Nietzsche: The Long View
Individual and Community in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Philosophies of Richard Wagner
In addition to being a great composer, Richard Wagner was also an important philosopher. Julian Young begins by examining the philosophy of art and society Wagner constructs during his time as a revolutionary anarchist-communist. Modernity, Wagner argued, is to be rescued from its current anomie through the rebirth of Greek tragedy (the original Gesamtkunstwerk) in the form of the artwork of the future," an artwork of which his own operas are the…
Schopenhauer
Second Reply to Professor Anderson
In the fall 2011 issue of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Professor Mark Anderson published an article “Telling the Same Story of Nietzsche's Life,” which pointed out certain similarities between the biographical half of my Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography and Curtis Cate's earlier biography titled Friedrich Nietzsche. I have already responded to this article in JNS, expressing regret at the overlaps. Here I should like to amplify…
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion
In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsche's early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsche's published wo…
Death and Transfiguration: Kant, Schopenhauer and Heidegger on the Sublime1
The feeling of the sublime is, says Kant, the bitter‐sweet combination of fear and utter security that one experiences in the face of, for instance, the night sky or the raging torrent. Fear of what? Fear of – this, I suggest, was Kant's seminal insight – death. But how can these feelings co‐exist? Surely the one cancels the other out? Schopenhauer's great insight, I argue, was that the explanation of the sublime requires a division of the person…
Poets and Rivers: Heidegger on Hölderlin's “Der Ister”
Between 1934 and 1942 Heidegger delivered three series of lectures on Hölderlin's poetry. The discussion of “Der Ister” was the last of these, although Heidegger continued to think and write about Hölderlin into the 1960s (see GA 4). William McNeill and Julia Davis's recent translation of the “Ister”—volume (GA 53)—is the first of the Hölderlin lectures to appear in English
The War and Islam
Wittgenstein, Kant, Schopenhauer, and critical philosophy
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art
This is a clear and lucid account of Nietzsche's philosophy of art, combining exegesis, interpretation and criticism in a judicious balance. Julian Young argues that Nietzsche's thought about art can only be understood in the context of his wider philosophy. In particular, he discusses the dramatic changes in Nietzschean aesthetics against the background of the celebrated themes of the death of God, eternal recurrence, and the idea of the Übermen…
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Art. By Julian Young. (Cambridge UP, 1992. Pp. xiv + 170. Price £27.95.) Kathleen Marie Hiccins Kathleen Marie Hiccins The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 173, October 1993, Pages 543–545, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220002 Published: 01 October 1993
Nietzsche's philosophy of art
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art
Heidegger, Philosophy, Nazism
Poets and Rivers: Heidegger on Hölderlin's “Der Ister”
Between 1934 and 1942 Heidegger delivered three series of lectures on Hölderlin's poetry. The discussion of “Der Ister” was the last of these, although Heidegger continued to think and write about Hölderlin into the 1960s (see GA 4). William McNeill and Julia Davis's recent translation of the “Ister”—volume (GA 53)—is the first of the Hölderlin lectures to appear in English
On How Not to Cross the Great Divide
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Heidegger's philosophy of art
The death of God and the meaning of life
Death and Transfiguration: Kant, Schopenhauer and Heidegger on the Sublime1
The feeling of the sublime is, says Kant, the bitter‐sweet combination of fear and utter security that one experiences in the face of, for instance, the night sky or the raging torrent. Fear of what? Fear of – this, I suggest, was Kant's seminal insight – death. But how can these feelings co‐exist? Surely the one cancels the other out? Schopenhauer's great insight, I argue, was that the explanation of the sublime requires a division of the person…
Nietzsche's philosophy of religion
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion
In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsche's early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsche's published wo…
Richard Wagner and the Birth of The Birth of Tragedy 1
Nietzsche writes that the ‘real task’ of The Birth of Tragedy is to ‘solve the puzzle of Wagner’s relation to Greek tragedy’. The ‘puzzle’, I suggest, is the intermingling in his art and writings of earlier socialist optimism with later Schopenhauerian pessimism. According to the former the function of the ‘rebirth of Greek tragedy’ in the ‘collective artwork’ is to ‘collect’, and so create, community. According to the second the function of the …
Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
In this beautifully written account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the conjunction of Nietzsche's personal history and his work: why the son of a Lutheran pastor developed into the self-styled 'Antichrist'; why this archetypical Prussian came to loath Bismarck's Prussia;…
Reply to Professor Anderson
Other| October 01 2011 Reply to Professor Anderson Julian Young Julian Young Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2011) 42 (1): 121. https://doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.42.1.0121 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Julian Yo…
Second Reply to Professor Anderson
In the fall 2011 issue of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Professor Mark Anderson published an article “Telling the Same Story of Nietzsche's Life,” which pointed out certain similarities between the biographical half of my Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography and Curtis Cate's earlier biography titled Friedrich Nietzsche. I have already responded to this article in JNS, expressing regret at the overlaps. Here I should like to amplify…
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche: The Long View
Individual and Community in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Philosophies of Richard Wagner
In addition to being a great composer, Richard Wagner was also an important philosopher. Julian Young begins by examining the philosophy of art and society Wagner constructs during his time as a revolutionary anarchist-communist. Modernity, Wagner argued, is to be rescued from its current anomie through the rebirth of Greek tragedy (the original Gesamtkunstwerk) in the form of the artwork of the future," an artwork of which his own operas are the…
Arendt
Apart from Simone de Beauvoir and perhaps Iris Murdoch, Hannah Arendt is the only really famous dead woman philosopher, certainly the only famous dead woman political philosopher. The Human Condition is not, Arendt insists, a study of human nature. The reason is that there is no such thing as human nature. What motivates Arendt&s;s project is the fact that modern man has initiated what she calls a &s;Promethean revolt&s; against the human conditi…
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