George Herbert Mead. A Contemporary Re-examination of his Thought
(MIT Press 1985)

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Social Action and Human Nature (with Axel Honneth)
(Cambridge University Press 1988)

Pragmatism and Social Theory
(University of Chicago Press 1993)

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The Creativity of Action
(University of Chicago Press 1996)

The Genesis of Values
(University of Chicago Press 2000)

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War and Modernity
(Blackwell 2003)

Social Theory (with Wolfgnag Knoebl) (Cambridge University Press 2009)

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Do We Need Religion? On the Experience of Self-Transcendence (Paradigm 2009)

War in Social Thought. A History
(with Wolfgang Knoebl)
(Princeton University Press 2012)

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The Sacredness of the Person. A New Genealogy of Human Rights
(Georgetown University Press 2013)