Preston King

ISBN-13: 9781433190902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 246 str.

Sam Cherribi; Kipton E. Jensen

Opis

This book celebrates the remarkable career of Dr. Preston King, an African American political philosopher with an international reputation. The chapters in this volume explore History, Toleration, and Friendship, as three seminal themes running through Preston King's sizeable oeuvre.

Spis treści

Historical Method - Gary Browning: Preston King: Beyond Contextualism - Stephanie Lawson: Contextualism and Incommensurability: A Critique - JamesMoore: Political Theories and Histories of England in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Skeptical Perspective of David Hume - Sam Cherribi: Portrait of Africa: Preston King Revisited - Toleration - Peter Jones: Power, Liberty and Rights: Preston King on Toleration - Jan Dobbernack andTariq Modood: Struggles for Tolerance and Recognition: Thinking with Democratic Multiculturalism - ChrisBrown: Tolerance in an Intolerant Age - Rupert Read: Rawlsian Liberalism Is Founded on Precautionary Thinking- but the Precautionary Principle Undermines Rawlsian Liberalism - Friendship - Graham M. Smith: Fragments on the Theme of 'Friendship and Politics' - Heather Devere: Friendship in Antiquity: Some Hidden Histories of a Political Concept - Janet Coleman: Reflections on the Self Itself: Aristotle on Reciprocity and Friendship - Preston King: Time, Tolerance, and Friendship - Contributors.

O autorze

Kipton E. Jensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Morehouse College, where he is also Director of the Leadership Studies Program in the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership." Also: Dr Jensen formerly taught at the Martin Luther Universitat in Germany, the University of Botswana, and Shanghai University. His publications include Hegel on Faith and Reason (2011), Parallel Discourses (2012), and Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground (2019). He has co-edited (with David Gowler) a collection of Howard Thurman's Sermons on the Parables (2018).