1st Edition
German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century Lukács to Strauss
Introduction
Part 1: The Left
1. Georg Lukács: The Hard Left
2. Ernst Bloch: The Utopian Left
3. Walter Benjamin: The Phenomenological Left
Part 2: The Right
4. Oswald Spengler: The Pessimistic Right
5. Max Scheler: The Christian Right
6. Carl Schmitt: The Bellicose Right
7. Leo Strauss: The American Right
Afterword.
Bibliography
Index
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 Žižek (2013); and The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (2nd edition 2014, Routledge).
"Young’s mastery of modern German philosophy is unsurpassed. In this lucid, compelling, and wide-ranging study, he continues his long-standing effort to map and assess this complex terrain, throwing new and much needed light especially on the relation between philosophy and politics. While revealing unexpected and exciting approaches to its subject matter, it offers timely and intellectually stimulating perspectives on our contemporary challenges." - Espen Hammer, Temple University, USA
