Professor für Internationale Politische Theorie und Philosophie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Projekte und Positionen im Forschungszentrum
Förderperiode 2019-2021
Projektleitung: Normative Wirtschaftspolitik – Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft | Forschungsschwerpunkt 2 – Verflüssigte Ordnungen: Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz
Projektleitung: Normative Wirtschaftspolitik – Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft | Forschungsschwerpunkt 4 – Überdehnte Ordnungen: Global Governance zwischen De- und Renationalisierung
Projektleitung: Interpreting the Anthropocene: Hope and Anxiety at the End of Nature | Forschungsschwerpunkt 4 – Überdehnte Ordnungen: Global Governance zwischen De- und Renationalisierung
Förderperiode 2012-2017
Projektleitung: Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Global Governance und Gerechtigkeit | Forschungsfeld 1
Fachrichtungen
Politikwissenschaft, Philosophie
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Internationale Politische Theorie und Philosophie
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Biografische Angaben
Darrel Moellendorf is Professor of International Political Theory and Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is also a member of the research group Normative Orders at Goethe Universität, and a member of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft of Goethe Universität. Additionally, he is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg. He has been a Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and a Senior Fellow at Justitia Amplificata at Goethe Universität. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for Humanities, the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Deutsche Akademischer Austausch Dienst.
Forschungsschwerpunkte: Planetary Futures, the Moral Psychology of Hope, Responese to Illness, Jus ex Bello
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Publikationen
2026 2025- Was heißt Hoffnung in Krisenzeiten? Ein Gespräch zur Philosophie der Hoffnung aus psychoanalytisch-sozialpsychologischer Sicht
- Climate Finance, the Right to Promote Sustainable Development and Responsibility
- Klimaethik. Ein Reader
2021
Moellendorf, Darrel; Callies, Daniel (2021): “Assessing Climate Policies: Catastrophe Avoidance and the Right to Sustainable Development” Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 20:2, 127-150.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): “Hoffnung und Gründe”, in: Forst, Rainer; Gunther, Klaus (Hrsg.), Normative Ordnungen, Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 648-671.
English version available online: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55449.2020
Moellendorf, Darrel; Schaffer, Axel; Brun, Sebastian (2020): “Distributive Justice and Climate Change Economics, ” Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltforschung, Heft 1.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): Hope and reasons. Normative Orders Working Paper 02/2020.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): “Hope for Material Progress in the Age of the Anthropocene”, in: Blöser, Claudia; Stahl, Titus (Hrsg.), The Moral Psychology of Hope, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 249-264.
Blöser, Claudia; Huber, Jakob; Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): Hope in political philosophy, in: Philosophy Compass, 15. | https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12665
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): Responsibility for Increasing Mitigation Ambition in Light of the Right to Sustainable Development, in: Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 13, 181–192.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2020): The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor, in: McKim, Robert (Hrsg.), Laudato si’ and the Environment. Pope Francis’ Green Encyclical, New York: Routledge.2019
Moellendorf, Darrel (2019): Cosmopolitan Justice, New York und London: Routledge.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2019): Hope for Material Progress in the Age of the Anthropocene, in: Blöser, Claudia/Stahl, Titus (Hrsg.), The Moral Psychology of Hope, Rowan and Littlefield.2018
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Development and Climate Ethics, in: Lever, Anabelle/Paoma, Andrei (Hrsg.), The Routledge Handbook Ethics and Public Policy, London: Routledge, 487–500.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Ending Wars, in: Lazar, Seth/Frowe, Helen (Hrsg.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ethics of War, Oxford: Oxford University Press. | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199943418.013.14
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Justice in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Policies, in: Schmidtz, David/Shahar, Dan (Hrsg.), Environmental Ethics. What Really Matters, What Really Works, 3. Auflage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Justice in Mitigation After Paris, in: Murphy, Colleen/Gandoni, Pablo/McKim, Robert (Hrsg.), Climate Change and Its Impacts: Risks and Inequalities, New York: Springer, 53–68.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Real-World Global Egalitarianism, in: Eckersley, Robin/Brown, Chris (Hrsg.), Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198746928.013.7
Moellendorf, Darrel (2018): Three Interpretations of the Anthropocene: Hope and Anxiety at the End of Nature, in: Ethics, Politics and Society.2017
Moellendorf, Darrel; Schaffer, Axel (2017): An Intergenerationally Fair Path to 2ºC, in: Climatic Change, 143:3, 213–226.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2017): Justice and Climate Change, in: Wolff, Jonathan (Hrsg.), Essential Reading in Ethics, New York: W. W. Norton, 457–467.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2017): Progress, Destruction, and the Anthropocene, in: Social Philosophy and Policy, 34:2, 66–88.2016
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Absolute poverty and global inequality, in: Schramm, Michael/Pogge, Thomas (Hrsg.), Absolute Poverty and Global Justice. Empirical Data – Moral Theories – Initiatives, London: Routledge, 143–154.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Anti-Poverty, Development, and the Limits of Progress, in: Res Publica, 22:3, 317–325. | doi:10.1007/s11158-016-9329-y
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Can a Liberal State Make Access to Medical Education Conditional on Public Service?, in: Moral Philosophy and Politics, 3:1, 45–53.
Moellendorf, Darrel; Schaffer, Axel (2016): Equalizing the Intergenerational Burdens of Climate Change — An Alternative to Discounted Utilitarianism, in: Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 30:1, 43–62.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Global Distributive Justice (2): The Cosmopolitan Point of View, in: Held, David/Maffettone, Pietro (Hrsg.), Global Political Theory, London: Polity Press.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2016): Taking UNFCCC Norms Seriously, in: Roser, Dominic/Heyward, Jennifer (Hrsg.), Climate Change and Non-Ideal Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 104–125.2015
Moellendorf, Darrel (2015): “Assistance, duty of”, “Cosmopolitanism”, and “Outlaw states”, in: Jon Mandle and David Reidy (eds.), A Rawls Lexicon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2015): Can Dangerous Climate Change Be Avoided, in: Global Justice Theory Practice Rhetoric, 8:2, 66–85.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2015): “Climate Change Justice,” Philosophy Compass, on line, March 2015, 173-186.
Moellendorf, Darrel; Widdows, Heather (2015): Introduction, in: Moellendorf, Darrel; Widdows, Heather (Hrsg.), The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics, London: Routledge, 1–3.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2015): “Two Doctrines of Jus ex Bello,“ Ethics 125:3, 2015, 653-673.2014
Moellendorf, Darrel; Schaffer, Axel (2014): “Beyond Discounted Utilitarianism – Just Distribution of Climate Costs,” Karlsruher Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitischen Forschung 34 (2014).
Moellendorf, Darrel; Widdows, Heather (2014): “Global Ethics Then and Now,” Journal of Global Ethics, 10:3, 2014, 319-325.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2014): “Just War,” in: Jon Mandle and David Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell Publishing.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2014): “Responsibility and the Right to Sustainable Development in Climate Change Treaty Deliberations” in Marcello Di Paola and Gianfranco Pellegrino eds. Canned Heat: The Ethics and Politics of Climate Change, Routledge.
Moellendorf, Darrel; Widdows, Heather (ed.) (2014): The Handbook of Global Ethics, Durham: Acumen.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2014): The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.2013
Moellendorf, Darrel (2013): “Human Dignity, Associative Duties, and Egalitarian Global Justice”, in: Gillian Brock (ed.), Cosmopolitanism For and Against, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 222-238.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2013): “Transcendental Institutionalism and Global Justice,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 16:2,162-178.2012
Moellendorf, Darrel (2012): “Climate Change and Global Justice,” WIREs Climate Change, 3:131–143.2011
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): A Normative Account of Dangerous Climate Change, in: Climatic Change, 108:1, 57–72.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): A Right to Sustainable Development, in: The Monist, 94:3, 433–452.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Cosmopolitanism and Compatriot Duties, in: The Monist, 94:4, 535–554.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Why Global Inequality Matters, in: Journal of Social Philosophy, 42:1, 99–109.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Common Atmospheric Ownership and Equal Emissions Entitlements, in: Arnold, Denis (Hrsg.), The Ethics of Global Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 104–123.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Cosmopolitanism and Compatriot Duties, in: The Monist, 94:4, 535–554.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Jus ex Bello in Afghanistan, in: Ethics and International Affairs, 25:2, 155–164.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2011): Why Global Inequality Matters, in: Journal of Social Philosophy, 42:1, 99–109.2010
Moellendorf, Darrel (2010): Human Dignity, Respect, and Global Inequality, in: Journal of Global Ethics, 6:3, 339–352.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2010): Menschenwürde, Gleichheit und globale Gerechtigkeit, in: Broszies, Christoph/Hahn, Henning (Hrsg.), Globale Gerechtigkeit, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 302–328.2009
Moellendorf, Darrel (2009): Global Inequality Matters, Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2009): Justice and the Intergenerational Assignment of the Costs of Climate Change, in: Journal of Social Philosophy, 40:2, 204–224.
Moellendorf, Darrel (2009): Treaty Norms and Climate Change Mitigation, in: Ethics and International Affairs, 23:3, 247–265.2008
Pogge, Thomas; Moellendorf, Darrel (2008): Global Justice: Seminal Essays, St. Paul: Paragon.2007
Moellendorf, Darrel (2007): Reconciliation as a Political Value, in: Journal of Social Philosophy, 38:2, 205–221.