Preston King: (3 Currents in Media, Social and Religious Movements in the Middle East)

This volume celebrates the remarkable career of Dr. Preston King, an African American political philosopher with an international reputation. King’s first degree was from Fisk University (1956). He moved directly to the London School of Economics (LSE), completing his M.Sc. (Econ) in 1958 with a Mark of Distinction. He taught at LSE for the next two years. A scrape with Jim Crow America kept him in exile for the next 40 years. Major friends and influences at LSE were Professors Sir Karl Popper, Michael Oakeshott, and Dr Bernard Crick. King took up subsequent lectureships at the universities of Keele, Ghana, and Sheffield. He was Senior Research Assistant at the Acton Society Trust (London), then professor at the universities of Nairobi, New South Wales (Sydney), and Lancaster, returning at last to the United States as joint Woodruff Professor at Emory and Distinguished Professor at Morehouse. The essays comprising this volume are by internationally renowned scholars. They creatively explore history, toleration, and friendship as three seminal themes running through Preston King’s sizeable oeuvre. The first third of this book consists of essays on time and history, with brilliant contributions by Professors Browning, Lawson, Moore, and Cherribi. The second third consists of essays on time and toleration, with memorable and penetrating analyses by Professors Jones, Read, Modood/ Dobbernak, and Brown. The final third consists of essays on time and friendship, with offerings—both charming and insightful—by Professors Devere, Smith, and Coleman. The book concludes with a novel and captivating chapter by King himself, on the philosophy of time, which constitutes the substratum of so much of his work and reflection.

Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
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).