Julian Young

Julian Padraic Young (born June 19, 1943) is an American philosopher and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University. He is known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy. He specializes in Continental (nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French) philosophy, philosophy of art, environmental philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Prior to moving to the United States, Professor Young taught at all levels at the universities of Auckland, Pittsburgh, Calgary and Tasmania. He has supervised and examined numerous MA and PhD theses at Auckland and throughout Australasia. He is the author of ten books, mostly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy. He has appeared on radio and television in Ireland, New Zealand and the US, and has written for the Guardian, the New York Times and Harper's Magazine. In 2011, Mark Anderson discovered that a significant amount of textual formulations and ideas in Young's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography were plagiarized from an earlier biography by Curtis Cate. Young's response was reported by Professor Mohan Matthen: 'Julian Young has now inserted into unsold copies of his book a list of Errata, an acknowledgement of Cate's biography and a list of changes to his text. We applaud his honourable gesture.'