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).
New Article in Social Philosophy and Policy Special Issue on Global Crises, edited by Allen Buchanan
My article "The Global Crisis and the Psychological Feasibility of Internationalism" is part of the Social Philosophy and Policy special issue on Global Crises, edited by Allen Buchanan. In this article I revisit the motivational critique of contemporary conceptions...
Article Published: Global Justice Must Be Seen To Be Done
The article is published in the Journal of International Political Theory. Here's the abstract: Over the past two decades the academic literature on global distributive justice has generated a proliferation of positions regarding the question of how to conceive a...
Launch of The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education on 8 September 2023
Democratic education is central to the functioning and flourishing of modern multicultural democracies, and yet it is subject to increasing public controversy and political pressure. Waning public trust in government institutions, sustained attacks on democratic...
Current Courses
HI/PL/PO 3091 The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the institutional home of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. In celebration of this event, this course studies the various historical phases of...
PL 1099 Comparative Democratic Theory
In this course we survey a great variety of classic and contemporary theories, practices, and critiques of democracy, ranging from African conceptions of consensual democracy to Confucian critiques of political equality. The course pursues a “de-parochializing”...
LW/PL/PO 3910 Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship is a key concept of our digital age, expressing the hope that a humane use of digital technologies is possible. The course contrasts digital citizenship with political, environmental, and global conceptions citizenship, before studying the...