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  • SOCIALISM AND THE COMMON GOOD
    PROFESSOR 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. ...

    $980.00

  • THE CHALLENGE TO FRIENDSHIP IN MODERNITY
    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. ...

    $980.00

  • THINKING PAST A PROBLEM
    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". ...

    $1,420.00

  • THE IDEOLOGY OF ORDER
    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. ...

    $1,380.00

  • FRIENDSHIP IN POLITICS
    PRESTON KING
    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 mutually opposed concerns. Politics tends to be seen as general and impersonal, to do w...

    $1,100.00

  • BLACK LEADERS AND IDEOLOGIES IN THE SOUTH
    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 Jordan. All are important in various ways to the movements this book seeks out. From the p...

    $1,560.00

  • TOLERATION
    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 assesses the major theoretical accounts of toleration, examining it in light of challeng...

    $1,420.00

  • THE STUDY OF POLITICS
    PRESTON KING
    This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. ...

    $660.00

  • TRUSTING IN REASON
    KING, PRESTON
    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 understanding (rational) and explanation (causal). He argued that the aptest account...

    $660.00