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1. Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South

   Resistance and Non-Violence

   Edited by Preston King, Walter Earl Fluker

   A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thought Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and Martin King are focused upon, together with Howard Thurman, Richard Wright, Fred Gray and Barbara...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
2. Friendship in Politics

   Theorizing Amity in and between States

   Edited by Preston King, Graham M. Smith

   Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this volume throws light on the place of friendship in politics by connecting theoretical questions to empirical answers. Today, friendship and politics are most commonly viewed as distinct and...

   Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge
3. Trusting in Reason

   Martin Hollis and the Philosophy of Social Action

   Edited by Preston King

   Martin Hollis (d.1998) was arguably the most incisive, eloquent and witty philosopher of the social sciences of his time. His work is appreciated and contested here by some of the most eminent of contemporary social theorists. Hollis's philosophy of social action routinely distinguished between...

   Published June 30th 2003 by Routledge
4. The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity

   Edited by Heather Devere, Preston King

   In antiquity, it was not only Aristotle who assumed the people are more to be understood in relation to one another than as individual or solitary constructs. This examination considers the changing attitudes to friendship since antiquity....

   Published September 6th 2000 by Routledge
5. Thinking Past a Problem

   Essays on the History of Ideas

   By Professor Preston King, Preston King

   Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "unique" or that it is merely "contextual"....

   Published January 29th 2000 by Routledge
6. The Ideology of Order

   A Comparative Analysis of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes

   By Preston King

   A school of thought traceable to the political writings of Bodin and Hobbes believes that "order" is the cardinal principle which takes precedence over "justice" - which is reduced to conformity. The main concern of this book is to analyse this tradition through study of its progenitors....

   Published November 28th 1999 by Routledge
7. Toleration

   By Professor Preston King, Preston King

   Why should we be tolerant? What does it mean to ‘live and let live’? What ought to be tolerated and what not? Up-and-coming author, Catriona McKinnon presents a comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to toleration in her new book. Divided into two parts, the first clearly introduces and...

   Published March 30th 1997 by Routledge
8. Socialism and the Common Good

   New Fabian Essays

   Edited by Professor Preston King, Preston King

   In this collection, contributors discuss a central theme which is both theoretical and practical - the role of the state in achieving social justice in modern market systems from a socialist perspective. They reject the cult of choice and of rational egoism....

   Published January 31st 1996 by Routledge
9. Thomas Hobbes

   Critical Assessments

   Edited by Preston King

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers

   Thomas Hobbes is arguably the greatest of all English philosophers. In the second half of the twentieth century, he has been subject to sustained critical attention. He was capable of powerful argument on virtually any plane, whether logical, scriptural or historical. And he has attracted attention...

   Published November 4th 1992 by Routledge
10. The Study of Politics

    A Collection of Inaugural Lectures

    By Preston King

    Published October 23rd 1977 by Routledge