Publications

Monographs

Democratic Hope – Imagination and the Political Future

forthcoming 2026 with Oxford University Press.

*Winner of the 2025 GRIPP Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award*

Kant’s Grounded Cosmopolitanism: Original Common Possession and the Right to Visit.

Oxford University Press 2022.

  • Review by Luke Davies in Jurisprudence
  • Review by Aravind Ganesh in Contemporary Political Theory
  • Review by Brian Milstein in Perspectives on Politics
  • Review by Ines Valdez in Kantian Review
  • Book Symposium in Ethics & Global Politics

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  „Justice for earth dwellers: a reply to my critics“

in Ethics & Global Politics, 18(1), 2025, 36-47 [published version]

Imaginative Hope

in Journal of the American Philosophical Association 11(1), 2025, 154 – 172. [published version]

The Predicament of Practical Reason

in Kantian Review 28(3) [part of an Author meets Critics on Lea Ypi’s The Architectonic of Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason]

Hope from Despair

in The Journal of Political Philosophy 31(1), 2023, 80-101. [published version]

Reconciliation or Anticipation? Reasonable Hope beyond Rawls

in Social Theory and Practice 2022 [published version]

Looking back, looking forward: progress, hope, and history.

in Constellations 28(1), 2021, 126-139.

Defying Democratic Despair: A Kantian Account of Hope in Politics

in European Journal of Political Theory 20(4), 2021, 719-738. [published version] [preprint]

Zur Rolle von Intuitionen in Gedankenexperimenten

in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68(5), 2020, 689–704.

Property without authority? Between natural law and the Kantian state

in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23(6), 2020, 773-779. [published version]

Hope in Political Philosophy (co-authored with Claudia Blöser and Darrel Moellendorf)

in Philosophy Compass 15(5), 2020. [published version] [preprint]

Putting proximity in its place

in Contemporary Political Theory, 19, 2020, 341–358. [published version] [preprint]

EU Citizens in Post-Brexit UK: The Case for Automatic Naturalisation

in Journal of European Integration 41(6), 2019, 801-816. [published version] [preprint]

Legitimacy as Public Willing: Kant on Freedom and the Law

in Ratio Juris 32(1), 2019, 102-116. [published version]  [preprint]

Gentrification and Occupancy Rights (co-authored with Fabio Wolkenstein)

in Politics, Philosophy & Economics 17(4), 2018, 378–397. [published version]

Kant’s cosmopolitanism as a task set to humankind

in History of Philosophy Quarterly 35(1), 2018, 39-57. [published version] [preprint]

Pragmatic Belief and Political Agency

in Political Studies 66(3), 2018, pp. 651–666. [published version] [preprint]

Theorising from the Global Standpoint: Kant and Grotius on Original Common Possession of the Earth

in European Journal of Philosophy 25(2), 2017, pp. 231–249 [published version] [preprint]

Cosmopolitanism for Earth Dwellers: Kant on the Right to be Somewhere

in Kantian Review 17(1), 2017, pp. 1-25. [published version] [preprint]

No right to unilaterally claim your territory: on the consistency of Kantian statism

in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20(6), 2017, 677-696. [published version] [preprint]

What makes Human Rights ‘Political’? A Kantian Critique

in Journal for Human Rights / Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte 7(2), 2013, pp. 127-141. [published version]

Book Chapters

Kritik der Regression

in Leviathan Sonderband „Zur Diagnose demokratischer Regression“, 40/2023, 292-252 [published version].

„Immanuel Kant“

in Rawls-Handbuch, edited by Johannes Frühbauer, Michael Reder and Thomas M. Schmidt (Stuttgart: Metzler-Verlag, 2021).

The Underrated Premium of Territorial Arrival

in The Shifting Border: Ayelet Shachar in Dialogue, part of the „Critical Powers“ series edited by Antony Simon Laden, Peter Niesen and David Owen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), 194-213.

Hoffnung und Utopie (co-authored with Claudia Blöser)

forthcoming in Handbuch Religionsphilosophie, edited by Heiko Schulz, Christian Wiese and Knut Wenzel (Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag).

Book Reviews

Review of „The Struggle for Democracy: Paradoxes of Progress and the Politics of Change“ by Christopher Meckstroth (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

in Constellations 18(4), 2018, 628-648. [published version]

Review of „As If: Idealization and Ideals“ by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017).

forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory. [online first]