Johan Dahlbeck

Johan Dahlbeck is Associate Professor of Education at Malmö University, Sweden. His research interest is in the philosophy of education, focusing especially on the convergence of ethics, political philosophy and educational theory. Dahlbeck’s recent books include: ”Fictionalism: The Art of Teaching Truth Disguised as Lies” (Brill, 2023), “Spinoza: Fiction and Manipulation in Civic Education” (Springer, 2021), “Education and Free Will: Spinoza, Causal Determinism and Moral Formation” (Routledge, 2018) and “Spinoza and Education: Freedom, Understanding and Empowerment” (Routledge, 2016), as well as a co-edited special issue on exemplarism in Spinoza and Arendt (Ethics and Education, 15:2, 2020). Dahlbeck is currently program coordinator of the international MA program in Educational Theory at Malmö University.