Julian Culp

Julian Culp is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at The American University of Paris. Previously, he was a lecturer in philosophy and political theory at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, where he received his Habilitation and PhD in philosophy. Culp was visiting professor at the University of Graz, held postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Toronto and the University of Louvain, and spent research stays at Duke and Princeton universities.

Culp is the author of Global Justice and Development (Palgrave, 2014) and Democratic Education in a Globalized World (Routledge, 2019), as well as of numerous articles in journals such as Philosophy Compass, Theory and Research in Education, Third World Quarterly, Social Philosophy & Policy, and Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education (CUP, 2023), the journal Analyse & Kritik – Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory (De Gruyter), and the book series Philosophy of Education – Debates and Constellations (Brill and Mentis).

• Habilitation in Philosophy, Goethe University of Frankfurt (2018)
• Ph.D. in Philosophy, Goethe University of Frankfurt (2012)
• M.A. in Political and Economic Philosophy, University of Bern (2008)
• B.A. in Philosophy and Economics, University of Bayreuth (2006)

• New Forthcoming Publication: "Three Rawlsian Rationales for a Cultural Turn in Digital Citizenship Education," The Review of Politics.
• New 2025 Publication: "Multicultural Education for Transnational Democratic Citizenship" in the Journal of Philosophy of Education.
• New Special Issue Edited: "What Demos and Kratos for the 21st Century?" Democratic Theory 11/2, with Stephen Sawyer

Books

• 2019. Democratic Education in a Globalized World. A Normative Theory. London: Routledge.

  • Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung by Johannes Drerup, Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik by Krassimir Stojanov, Ethics and Global Politics by Martin Beckstein, Michael Festl and Michael Geiss (in a symposium), Ethics and Global Politics by David V. Axelsen (in a review essay), Policy & Practice by Sam Wong

• 2014. Global Justice and Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Reviewed in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities by Lisa Fuller, Neue Politische Literatur by Frank Nullmeier, Politische Vierteljahresschrift by Eva Weiler, Progress in Development by Karl Martens, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice by Mitu Sengupta, Public Reason by Henrique Brum

(Co-)Edited Books and Journal Special Issues (all with an editorial introduction)

• 2024: "What Demos and Kratos for the 21st Century?" Democratic Theory 11/2, with Stephen Sawyer
• 2023. The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, with Johannes Drerup and Douglas Yacek
• 2022. Symposium on Peter Hägel's Billionaires in World Politics. The Journal of Global Ethics 18/2
• 2022. Liberal Democratic Education: A Paradigm in Crisis. Leiden: Brill, with Johannes Drerup, Isolde de Groot, Anders Schinkel, and Douglas Yacek
• 2021. Demokratieerziehung und die Herausforderungen des Liberalismus (Democratic Education and the Challenges of Liberalism). Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 67/5, with Johannes Drerup
• 2020. Education and Migration. London: Routledge, with Danielle Zwarthoed
• 2018. Education and Migration. The Journal of Global Ethics 14/2, with Danielle Zwarthoed
• 2019. Global Justice and Education. Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 12/1
• 2016. Global Justice and Non-Domination. Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 9/1, with Tamara Jugov, Miriam Ronzoni and Laura Valentini
• 2015. Climate Justice. Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 8/2, with Tamara Jugov, Miriam Ronzoni and Laura Valentini
• 2014. Global Justice and the Theory and Practice of Development. Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 7

Journal Articles

• Forthcoming. "Three Rawlsian Rationales for a Cultural Turn in Digital Citizenship Education," The Review of Politics.
• 2025. "Multicultural Education for Transnational Democratic Citizenship," Journal of Philosophy of Education.
• 2025. "Global Justice Must Be Seen To Be Done—A Defense of Integrated Pluralism," Journal of International Political Theory 21/1, 18-31 .
• 2024. "Morally philosophizing the indefensible or politically theorizing the disagreeable?" Ethics and Global Politics 17/4, 16-24.
• 2023. "The Global Crisis and the Psychological Feasibility of Internationalism," Social Philosophy and Policy 40/2, 372-86.
• 2023. "Democratic Citizenship Education in Digitized Societies – A Habermasean Approach," Educational Theory 73/2, 178-203.
• 2022. "Four challenges to political autonomy education in contemporary public spheres." On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 5(14).
• 2021. “Demokratieerziehung und die Krise der repräsentativen Demokratie,“ Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 67/5, 528-42.
• 2020. "Educational Justice." Philosophy Compass 15/12, 1-12
• 2020. "A Vindication of Transnational Democratic Education." Ethics & Global Politics 13/3, 155-74
• 2020. "Discourse Ethics, Epistemology and Educational Justice." Theory and Research in Education 18/2, 151-73
• 2020. “Provincializing the West by Essentializing the East?” On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 3 (7)
• 2020. “Bildung und Gerechtigkeit,” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 74 (2), 296-309
• 2019. “Is there a Universal Grammar of Justice?” Philosophy and Public Issues 9(3), 145-75
• 2019. “Two Tales of the Capabilities Approach,” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 20/3, 362-7
• 2018. “Educação Cidadã, Consciência Democrática e Globalização,” in Revista Perspectiva Filosófica 45 (4), 188-218
• 2018. “Internationalizing Nussbaum’s Model of Cosmopolitan Democratic Education,” Ethics and Education 13/2, 172–90
• 2018. “Israeli History Textbooks and Palestinians – Remarks on a Critical Theory of Israeli School Education,” Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 17/1,115-29
• 2017. “Disaggregated Pluralist Theories of Global Justice – A Critique,” The Journal of Global Ethics 13/2, 168–86
• 2017. “What Can We Learn from ‘Postmodern’ Critiques of Education for Autonomy?,” Analyse & Kritik 37/2, 373–92
• 2017. “Against all Odds: Peace Education in Times of Crisis,” Educational Theory and Philosophy, 49/10, 1029–37
• 2016. “Critical Remarks on Simon Caney’s Humanity-Centered Approach to Global Justice,” Ethic@ – An International Journal of Moral Philosophy 15/1, 150–64
• 2016. “How Irresponsible Are Rising Powers?,” Third World Quarterly 37/9, 1525–36
• 2016. “Normative Reconstruction without Foundation,” European Journal of Political Theory 15/2, 248–55, with Leah Soroko
• 2015. “G.A. Cohen, Constructivism, and the Fact of Reasonable Pluralism,” Analyse & Kritik 35/1-2, 131–47
• 2015. “Two Conceptions of Ideal and Nonideal Theory,” Aracê – Direitos Humanos em Revista 2/2, 127–53
• 2014. “Rising Powers’ Responsibility for Reducing Global Distributive Injustice,” The Journal of Global Ethics 10/3, 274–82
• 2014. “Hooray for Global Justice? Emerging Democracies in a Multipolar World,” Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 7, 39–66, with Johannes Plagemann
• 2013. “Four Liberal-Egalitarian Models of Global Justice,” Revista Perspectiva Filosófica 39/2, 14-29
• 2011.“Reciprocity in Economic Games,” Analyse & Kritik 33/1, 349–64, with Heiner Schumacher

Articles in Edited Books

• 2024. "Deweyan Democracy and Education in a 'Society of Broadcasters'" in Festl, Michael (ed.), John Dewey and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Education, London: Routledge, 87-104.
• 2022. "Does Democratic Citizenship Education Engineer Consent to Political Authority?" in Luppi, Roberto (ed.), Autorità e democrazia. Educare al pluralismo nel XXI secolo. Rome: Armando Editore, 163-176
• 2022. "Zur postkolonialen Kritik globaler demokratischer Bildungsgerechtigkeit," in Drerup, Johannes und Philipp Knobloch (eds.), Bildung in postkolonialen Konstellationen. Bielefeld: transcript, 235-260
• 2020. “On the Compatibility of Global Democratic Justice and Confucianism,” in Hugo El-Kholi and Jun-Hyong Kwak, Global Justice in East Asia, London: Routledge, 34–51
• 2019. “Zur praktischen Relevanz des politischen Liberalismus – eine Verteidigung am Beispiel gerechter Bildungspolitik,” in Fischer, Karsten and Sebastian Huhnholz (eds.), Liberalismus, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 387–407
• 2017. “Globaler Egalitarismus – eine Kritik,” in Schleidgen, Sebastian (ed.), Die Egalitarismusdebatte, Marburg: Tectum-Verlag, 101–27
• 2016. “Toward Another Development Practice,” in Barcelos, Paulo and Gabriele de Angelis (eds.), International Development and Humanitarian Aid, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 79–107
• 2014. “Gerechtigkeitsbasierte Entwicklung – ein diskurstheoretischer Ansatz,” in Kadelbach, Stefan (ed.), Normative Bedingungen der Entwicklungspolitik, Frankfurt: Campus, 152–78.
• 2012. “Bridging the Gap: Global Justice in Health Research,” in Scott, Dane (ed.), Debating Science, Amherst: Prometheus Books, 69–79, with Nicole Hassoun.
• 2011.“Warum es für eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit zählt, ob sie in der Praxis taugt,” in Amman, Christoph, Barbara Bleisch and Anna Goppel (eds.), Müssen Ethiker moralisch sein? Frankfurt: Campus, 302–12.

Handbook, Encyclopedia and Lexicon Articles

• Julian Culp (forthcoming): "Migration Ethics Between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory," in Niederberger, Andreas et al. (eds.), Handbook of Migration Ethics. Berlin: Springer.

• 2023. "Equality of Educational Opportunity," in Sardoč, Mitja (ed.), Handbook of Equality of Opportunity. Berlin: Springer, 1-25, with Johannes Drerup.

• 2023. "Ethics of Education," in Sellers, Mortimer, and Stephan Kirste (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Berlin: Springer, 1-7.

• 2023. "Demokratie," in Frühbauer, Johannes, Michael Reder, Michael Roseneck und Thomas Schmidt (Hg.), Rawls-Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 213–217.

• 2023. "Thomas Pogge," in Frühbauer, Johannes, Michael Reder, Michael Roseneck und Thomas Schmidt (eds.), Rawls-Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 497-503.

• 2022. "Global Democratic Educational Justice," in Curren, Randall (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Education. London: Routledge, 245-56.

• 2021. “John Rawls,” in Festl, Michael (ed.), Liberalismus Handbuch, Stuttgart: Metzler, 149-56.

• 2021. “Martha Nussbaum,” in Festl, Michael (ed.), Liberalismus Handbuch, Stuttgart: Metzler, 165-71.
• 2021. “Supranationalität,” in Festl, Michael (ed.), Liberalismus Handbuch, Stuttgart: Metzler, 263-8.
• 2020. “Poverty,” in LaFollete, Hugh (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics.
• 2018. “Freiheit,” in Oberreuter, Heinrich (ed.), 8th edition of the Staatslexikon der Görres-Gesellschaft, Freiburg: Herder, Vol. II, 837-45.
• 2018. “Global and Social Justice in Development,” in Drydyk, Jay and Lori Keleher (eds.), Handbook of Development Ethics, London: Routledge, 103–15.
• 2018. “International Responsibilities,” in Drydyk, Jay and Lori Keleher (eds.), Handbook of Development Ethics, London: Routledge, 333–45
• 2015. “Development,” in Moellendorf, Darrel and Heather Widdows (eds.), The Handbook of Global Ethics, London: Routledge, 170–81
• 2011. “Ideal Moral Theory,” in Chatterjee, Deen (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Dordrecht: Springer, 521–3, with Nicole Hassoun

Book Reviews

• 2024. "Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor. Degenerations of Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022)," Constellations 31/1, 124-6.
• 2024. "Markus Tiedemann, Post-Aufklärungsgesellschaft – Was wir verlieren und was uns bevorsteht (Leiden/Paderborn: Brill/mentis, 2023)," Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik 46/1, 123-4.
• 2023. "Krassimir Stojanov, Bildung gegen Populismus? Über antidemokratische Halbbildung und ihre Alternativen (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022)," Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik 45/4, 117.
• 2019. David Alm, Moral Rights and Their Grounds (London: Routledge, 2019), Notre Dame Philosophical Review 2019.09.20
• 2018. David Ingram, World Crisis and Underdevelopment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2018.07.19
• 2016. Michael Reder et al. (eds.), Global Common Good: Intercultural Perspectives on a Just and Ecological Transformation (Frankfurt: Campus, 2015), in Neue Politische Literatur 61/2, 362–3
• 2015. Thom Brooks (ed.), Global Justice and International Affairs (The Hague: Brill Publishers, 2011), in The Journal of Moral Philosophy 13/2, 249–52, with Nicole Hassoun
• 2015. Diana Tietjens Meyers (ed.), Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford       University Press, 2014), in Ethics 126, 234–8, with Nicole Hassoun and Peter Stone
• 2014. Oliver Feltham, Anatomy of Failure: Philosophy and Political Action (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2014.04.17
• 2013. Huw Llyod Williams, On Rawls, Development and Global Justice: The Freedoms of People (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), in The Journal of Human Capabilities and Development 14/4, 607–10
• 2013. Mathias Risse, On Global Justice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), in Neue Politische Literatur 58/1, 168–9

Miscellaneous

• Translation from American English into German: Nancy Fraser. 2024. "Zwischen System und Norm," in Bassiouni et al. (eds.), Die Macht der Rechterftigung, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 555-573.
• 2022. Demokratie und Digitalisierung in der Erwachsenenbildung. Vienna: Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF)
• 2021. "Licht und Schatten John Rawls` politischer Philosophie," praefaktisch-Blog, February 28
• 2017. “Vom Nutzen der Idee perfekter Gerechtigkeit,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 1 (with a reply by Frieder Vogelmann and Martin Nonhoff, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 27)
• 2017. “Educational Equality Among Whom?,” Agenda for International Development-blog, May
• 2017. “Zur Notwendigkeit eines europäischen Patriotismus: Ein Interview mit Philippe van Parijs,” Theorieblog, April 4
• 2016. “Rising Powers: A Philosophical and Political Exchange,” Agenda for International Development-blog, May 17, 2016
• 2016. “Wer Ohren hat, der höre! Zur vermeintlichen Sprachlosigkeit Politischer Theorie,” Theorieblog, May 10, 2016 (with a reply by Frieder Vogelmann and Martin Nonhoff, Theorieblog, May 24)
• 2015. “Nachgefragt,” Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, September 13, 2015, 7
• 2014.“Warum Liebe für Gerechtigkeit wichtig ist. Prof. Martha Nussbaum sprach bei der Dagmar-Westberg-Vorlesung über politische Emotionen,” Uni Report 1, 6, with Bernd Frye
• 2013. “The Problem of Undemocratic Side Effects of Democracy Promotion,” in Tangen, [5]Sarah (ed.), African Perspectives on Social Justice, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 26–42
• 2013. “Die innere Haltung ausrichten auf Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie,” in Mattis, Jürgen (ed.), Philosophische und ethische Standpunkte in der Bildungs- und Sozialarbeit, Frankfurt: Evangelischer Regionalverband und Stadtschulamt, 12–20   
• 2013. “On the Role of the Political Theorist Regarding Global Injustice,” Interview of Katrin Flikschuh, Rainer Forst and Darrel Moellendorf, Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 6, 40–53, with Valentin Beck
• 2011.“Das Ideal der Gerechtigkeit als realistische Utopie,” cusaner correspondenz 1, 18–20
• 2011. “Comment on Meyer and Sanklecha. Individual Expectations and Climate Justice,” Analyse & Kritik 33/2, 473–6
• 2007. “Understanding Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Monitoring Systems from a Civil Society Perspective,” Guidelines for Practitioners, with Bruno Stöckli

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie
• Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft
• Human Development and Capability Association
• The Global Justice Network
• North American Association for Philosophy and Education
• Atelier de Théorie Politique – Paris
• European Seminars in Philosophy of Education
• ECIT Foundation – European Citizens' Rights, Involvement, and Trust

• Social and Political Philosophy: domestic and global theories of distributive, educational, and political justice; theories of social development and progress; methodology; comparative political theory
• Ethics: educational ethics, global ethics, action theory