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).
Philosophy of Education: Rethinking European Traditions
The founding meeting of the European Seminars in Philosophy of Education will be held at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 3-4, 2025, on the topic of Philosophy of Education: Rethinking European Traditions. What are the European...
2024-25 Program of the Atelier de Théorie Politique-Paris
L’atelier de théorie politique Paris (ATPP) est un lieu ouvert à diverses approches de la théorie et de la philosophie politiques, qui valorise la mise à l’épreuve argumentée de réflexions actuelles, situées à la frontière des sciences politiques, des sciences...
New Article on Multicultural Education for Transnational Democratic Citizenship
Published (online first) in the Journal of Philosophy of Education. Abstract: On Will Kymlicka’s conception of multicultural citizenship, group membership enables personal autonomy by way of providing individuals with meaningful options. Many educational and political...
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...