Julian Young is Kenan Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University. He is the author of more than fifty articles and twelve books, including Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (winner of the 2010 PROSE award for philosophy), The Philosophy of Tragedy: From Plato to Žižek (2013), and The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (second edition, 2014). He has appeared on radio and television in the United States, England, Ireland, and New Zealand, and has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, and Harper’s Magazine.