Julian Culp
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator for Philosophy
- Department: History and Politics
- Graduate Program(s): International Affairs
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Professor Culp joined The American University of Paris as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the fall of 2018. Before that, he was a lecturer and research associate in philosophy and political theory at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. He held research and teaching positions at the University of Toronto in 2014-15 and the Catholic University of Louvain in 2017 and spent research stays at Princeton University in 2011 and at Duke University in 2008.
Culp's main research and teaching interests are in ethics as well as in social and political philosophy, and he is interested in both historical and systematic issues within these areas. While his initial philosophical education was mainly analytic and put considerable weight on formal logic and argumentation theory, he was later influenced by the Critical Theory approach of the Frankfurt School. Thus, he engages in philosophical research and teaching in a way that is informed by history and the social sciences, while paying special attention to argumentative clarity and conceptual precision.
Culp is the author of Global Justice and Development (Palgrave, 2014) and of Democratic Education in a Globalized World (Routledge, 2019), as well as of numerous articles in journals such as Philosophy Compass, The European Journal of Political Theory, Theory and Research in Education, Third World Quarterly and Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung. He co-edits the book series Philosophy of Education – Debates and Constellations (Brill and Mentis) as well as Analyse & Kritik – Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory (De Gruyter).
At The American University of Paris, Culp coordinates the Philosophy Program and is a Fellow of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies.
Education/Degrees
- 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)
News
- The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), which I co-edited with Johannes Drerup and Douglas Yacek, is coming out in May 2023.
- The Symposium on Peter Hägel's Billionaires in World Politics, which I co-edited for The Journal of Global Ethics 18/2, came out in November 2022.
- My article on global educational justice in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Education (London: Routledge), edited by Randall Curren, came out in October of 2022.
- My article on challenges to political autonomy education in contemporary public spheres was published in a special issue of On Education, edited by Anne Rohstock, in September of 2022.
- Liberal Democratic Education: A Paradigm in Crisis is the first volume of the series Philosophy of Education - Debates and Constellations (Leiden: Brill) – it came out in April of 2022.
Publications
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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 2022. “Global Democratic Educational Justice,” in Curren, Randall (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Education. London: Routledge, 245-56
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Affiliations
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie
- Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft
- Human Development and Capability Association
- The Global Justice Network
- North American Association for Philosophy and Education
Research Areas
- 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
Awards, Fellowships and Grants
- 2020: Flagship Course Development Grant, Andrew Mellon Foundation
- 2020: Course Release Grant, Civic Media Lab, The American University of Paris
- 2019: Nomination of Habilitation thesis for the Werner-Pünder-Prize
- 2019: Nomination of Habilitation thesis for Frankfurter Preis für philosophische Habilitationsarbeiten der Freunde und Förderer der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
- 2019: Team Teaching Grant, Andrew Mellon Foundation
- 2019: Course Development Grant, Andrew Mellon Foundation
- 2019, 2020: Faculty Fellowship Award, Schaeffer Center for the Study of Violence, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention
- 2018, 2019: Faculty Development Grant, The American University of Paris
- 2017–2020: Journal Enhancement Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG), for the journal Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric
- 2013–2016: Journal Enhancement Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG), for the journal Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric
- 2008–2011: Doctoral scholarship, Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders, Goethe University of Frankfurt (resigned 02/2010)
- 2006–2008: Scholarship for international MA students, University of Bern
- 2005–2006: Student scholarship for undergraduate studies at the University of São Paulo, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- 2005–2008: Student scholarship, Cusanuswerk