Tony Burns is an Emeritus Professor of Political Theory in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He is one of the Co-Directors of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), based in the UK. His publications include: Natural Law and Political Ideology in the Philosophy of Hegel (Avebury Press, 1996), The Hegel – Marx Connection (edited with Ian Fraser, Loughborough University; Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin and The Dispossessed (Lexington Books, 2008), The Legacy of Leo Strauss (edited with James Connelly, University of Hull; Imprint Academic, 2010), Aristotle and Natural Law (Continuum Books, 2011), Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition (edited with Simon Thompson, UWE; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition, Volume 1: From the Ancient Greeks to the Reformation (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020), and Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the French Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020). He is currently writing Masters and Slaves: Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From Hegel to the Present, which is to be published by Manchester University Press. [tony.burns@nottingham.ac.uk]