W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz is one of Poland's most renowned philosophers and political thinkers. Brought up in the city of Gdansk, he was a student leader in the Solidarity movement. As a graduate student he was awarded the Scholarship of the Leadership Development Office of the Presbyterian Church (USA). He has received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford and has taught at many universities, including Anglo-American University of Prague, Texas State University in San Marcos, and Lazarski University in Warsaw. He is the author of several books, including On the History of Political Philosophy (Pearson/Routledge 2012), The Presocratic Thinkers in the Thought of Martin Heidegger (Peter Lang 2016) and Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus: New Directions for the Future Development of Humankind (Routledge 2017)