Preston King
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3628328 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Preston King |
| NOMBRES | Preston |
| APELLIDO | King |
| FIRMA | KING P |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1963 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Justice and equality
All humans are judges of Truth, Justice, and Beauty – categories that shall be taken roughly to parallel Science, Ethics, and Esthetics. All knowledge fits into these categories and is exhausted by
Socialism and the Common Good
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.
The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity
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
Professor Sir Bernard Crick (1929–2008)
Challenging Democratic Sovereignty
Friendship in Politics
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 with Power and Hierarchy. Friendship, by contrast, is standardly conceived as particular and intimate, relating to Equality and Fraternity. On this view, friendship may corrupt politics, and politics override friendship. Ancient thought, however, as in Greece and Rome, tended to bring the tw…
Being American (Politics of Identity – XI)
Being American’ is a two-sided identity called ‘citizenship’. This involves a set (the state) and its members (citizens). The citizen (say Whitman) may be ‘fully’ American, just as some particular nation (say Native American, African, British, Jewish) may be so. But no one citizen (the patriot), or subset of citizens (perhaps the ethnic group), nor even the set of all citizens (past and present) reflects or symbolizes the whole of what ‘being Ame…
Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South Resistance and Non-Violence
Theory in history
(2004). Theory in history: foundations of resistance and nonviolence in the American South. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 7, Black Leaders as Political Theorists, pp. 1-50
Ida B. Wells and the management of violence
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) was a considerable figure in her day. But she has not been accorded posthumous acclaim in parallel. This oversight is either just, or an unprecedented historical falsification – enabled largely through unhappy, gendered misperception. African‐American thought for long turned round dispute between accommodation (Washington) and protest (Du Bois) as forms of leadership. Yet this contrast may mislead. First, Washington was m…
Trusting in Reason
How not to overshoot the evidence in historical logic
(2002). How not to overshoot the evidence in historical logic. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 92-100
Trusting in reason
Liberty
‘Negative’ and ‘positive’ liberty are not distinct types of freedom. They represent distinct points of stress within the one logical matrix. The abstract logical formula for liberty is taken to be ‘A is free from x to do y’, where ‘from x’ is taken to implicate ‘to do y’, and vice versa. By contrast, concrete cases of freedom ('rights'), such as ‘from hunger’ or ‘to speak’, are taken always to contradict other concrete cases, such as property rig…
Liberty as power
Liberty is viewed as the reigning paradigm of our age, but it is a paradigm in crisis. It is conventionally divided into two types, positive and negative. The argument here is that both types can be seen to presuppose some capacity, which may extend to power. Liberty, however, is normally accorded a higher moral value than power. But if liberty is taken itself to reflect a commitment to power, then the disvalue ostensibly placed upon the latter i…
Constitutionalism and the despatch‐box principle
This essay presents a construct of constitutionalism. This is to do with more than a ‘constitution’, or a ‘corporate organisation’, or ‘majority rule’. Constitutionalism is marked by a particular type of corporate rule, featuring a persistent (continuing) popular sovereignty, in which all who are governed are members, have a duty of mutual respect, enjoy an equal share in the vote, and are equally subject to the law. Under constitutionalism, the …
Democracy and the persistence of power
Power consists in the capacity of A to command B, even against B's wishes, whether directly or indirectly. Questions to do with who possesses it and in what degree are obscured by inflationary shifts of definition (as where power encompasses action as such, or right action, or co‐operation). These misjudged moves are generally marked by the assumption that democracy displaces power. But if democracy ultimately persists as a voting procedure, its …
Overwhelming power
The paradigm case of power as ‘power over’ (not ‘power to') betrays a concern (1) more with the capacity to dominate others than with the unqualified capacity to act as such; (2) more with the fact, than with the morality, of dominance ‐ underscoring the key analytical distinction between ‘power’ and ‘authority'; and (3) more with compulsion than co‐operation. The three moves to combine (1) ‘power over’ with ‘power to’, (2) ‘power’ with ‘authorit…
Socialism and the Common Good
Historical Contextualism Revisited
To deal with the methodological problems of historical contextualism, it is useful to distinguish between (1) Text, (2) Context, (3) History, (4) Contextualism and (5) Historicism.1 A text is by turn the outcome, and object, of all writing or research. A context is any perspective on a text, including the background data that one may append to it. History is a narrative, a story, which is focused upon a text or context - in as far as the two are …
Historical contextualism
L'A. definit la methode contextualiste telle qu'elle a ete developpee par Skinner et Pocock pour la philosophie politique et de l'histoire en en faisant resortir les avantages et les limites, et en se demandant si le contextualisme historique n'est pas un nouvel historicisme
Books
Shammit Saggar, Race and Politics in Britain, Hemel Hempstead: Prentice‐Hall, 1992, 236 pp., £9.95 p.b. Alexander DeConde, Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992, 270 pp., n.p., cloth Caroline Knowles, Race, Discourse and Labourism, London: Routledge, 1992, 206 pp., £40.00 h.b. Steven Fielding, Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England, 1880–1939, Buckingham: Open University Pres…
Modernity
The policy of racial ‘segregation’ in the United States was always illusory, as is the present policy of ‘integration’. Booker T. Washington's simile of the ‘races’ being as united as the hand and as separate as its fingers nicely captures, at once, (1) the incoherence of the American egalitarian ideal and (2) the functional utility of a hierarchy steeped in, and stepped by, phenotype. In this system, both white and black were socialised into the…
Modernity
Modernity may be viewed as embodying (1) an acute species of egalitarian classlessness or (2) the popular legitimation of a socio‐political hierarchy steeper than any hitherto known. While modernity approximates in structure to (2), in aspiration it is closer to (1). The tension between the ideal and the real is eased in a degree by differential colouring of the strata constituting an ever‐extending hierarchy. However, (1) and (2) are not opposit…
An African Winter
Friendship in Politics
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 with Power and Hierarchy. Friendship, by contrast, is standardly conceived as particular and intimate, relating to Equality and Fraternity. On this view, friendship may corrupt politics, and politics override friendship. Ancient thought, however, as in Greece and Rome, tended to bring the tw…
Historical contextualism
L'A. definit la methode contextualiste telle qu'elle a ete developpee par Skinner et Pocock pour la philosophie politique et de l'histoire en en faisant resortir les avantages et les limites, et en se demandant si le contextualisme historique n'est pas un nouvel historicisme
Justice and equality
All humans are judges of Truth, Justice, and Beauty – categories that shall be taken roughly to parallel Science, Ethics, and Esthetics. All knowledge fits into these categories and is exhausted by
Being American (Politics of Identity – XI)
Being American’ is a two-sided identity called ‘citizenship’. This involves a set (the state) and its members (citizens). The citizen (say Whitman) may be ‘fully’ American, just as some particular nation (say Native American, African, British, Jewish) may be so. But no one citizen (the patriot), or subset of citizens (perhaps the ethnic group), nor even the set of all citizens (past and present) reflects or symbolizes the whole of what ‘being Ame…
The Problem of Tolerance
IN THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION WE ARE CONCERNED WITH tolerance, not as a physical problem, but as a problem of human relations. In this context, ‘to tolerate’ generally means to endure, suffer or put up with a person, activity, idea or organization of which or whom one does not really approve. One can ‘put up with’ an item both when one can and cannot do anything about it. For example, one can ‘put up with’ the excesses of a ruler whose behaviour on…
Liberty as power
Liberty is viewed as the reigning paradigm of our age, but it is a paradigm in crisis. It is conventionally divided into two types, positive and negative. The argument here is that both types can be seen to presuppose some capacity, which may extend to power. Liberty, however, is normally accorded a higher moral value than power. But if liberty is taken itself to reflect a commitment to power, then the disvalue ostensibly placed upon the latter i…
Overwhelming power
The paradigm case of power as ‘power over’ (not ‘power to') betrays a concern (1) more with the capacity to dominate others than with the unqualified capacity to act as such; (2) more with the fact, than with the morality, of dominance ‐ underscoring the key analytical distinction between ‘power’ and ‘authority'; and (3) more with compulsion than co‐operation. The three moves to combine (1) ‘power over’ with ‘power to’, (2) ‘power’ with ‘authorit…
Historical Contextualism Revisited
To deal with the methodological problems of historical contextualism, it is useful to distinguish between (1) Text, (2) Context, (3) History, (4) Contextualism and (5) Historicism.1 A text is by turn the outcome, and object, of all writing or research. A context is any perspective on a text, including the background data that one may append to it. History is a narrative, a story, which is focused upon a text or context - in as far as the two are …
Michael Oakeshott and historical particularism
Aspects militaires de l'unité africaine
Politics and Experience
Politics and Experience
The Problem of Tolerance
IN THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION WE ARE CONCERNED WITH tolerance, not as a physical problem, but as a problem of human relations. In this context, ‘to tolerate’ generally means to endure, suffer or put up with a person, activity, idea or organization of which or whom one does not really approve. One can ‘put up with’ an item both when one can and cannot do anything about it. For example, one can ‘put up with’ the excesses of a ruler whose behaviour on…
Race and Racialism
Journal Article Race and Racialism Get access Race and Racialism, edited by Sami Zubaida. Tavistock Publications, 1970. xiii+185pp. £1·80. Paperback, £0.90. PRESTON KING PRESTON KING London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 281, October 1971, Pages 406–407, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096176 Published: 01 October 1971
La sociedad, la formación del Estado y la modernización
A reply to Michael James
Ideology as Politics
The Arab League and the organization of African Unity
(1978). The Arab League and the organization of African Unity. Politics: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 104-111
Michael Oakeshott and historical particularism
Federalism and Federation
An African Winter
Modernity
Modernity may be viewed as embodying (1) an acute species of egalitarian classlessness or (2) the popular legitimation of a socio‐political hierarchy steeper than any hitherto known. While modernity approximates in structure to (2), in aspiration it is closer to (1). The tension between the ideal and the real is eased in a degree by differential colouring of the strata constituting an ever‐extending hierarchy. However, (1) and (2) are not opposit…
Modernity
The policy of racial ‘segregation’ in the United States was always illusory, as is the present policy of ‘integration’. Booker T. Washington's simile of the ‘races’ being as united as the hand and as separate as its fingers nicely captures, at once, (1) the incoherence of the American egalitarian ideal and (2) the functional utility of a hierarchy steeped in, and stepped by, phenotype. In this system, both white and black were socialised into the…
Books
Shammit Saggar, Race and Politics in Britain, Hemel Hempstead: Prentice‐Hall, 1992, 236 pp., £9.95 p.b. Alexander DeConde, Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992, 270 pp., n.p., cloth Caroline Knowles, Race, Discourse and Labourism, London: Routledge, 1992, 206 pp., £40.00 h.b. Steven Fielding, Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England, 1880–1939, Buckingham: Open University Pres…
Historical contextualism
L'A. definit la methode contextualiste telle qu'elle a ete developpee par Skinner et Pocock pour la philosophie politique et de l'histoire en en faisant resortir les avantages et les limites, et en se demandant si le contextualisme historique n'est pas un nouvel historicisme
Socialism and the Common Good
Historical Contextualism Revisited
To deal with the methodological problems of historical contextualism, it is useful to distinguish between (1) Text, (2) Context, (3) History, (4) Contextualism and (5) Historicism.1 A text is by turn the outcome, and object, of all writing or research. A context is any perspective on a text, including the background data that one may append to it. History is a narrative, a story, which is focused upon a text or context - in as far as the two are …
Democracy and the persistence of power
Power consists in the capacity of A to command B, even against B's wishes, whether directly or indirectly. Questions to do with who possesses it and in what degree are obscured by inflationary shifts of definition (as where power encompasses action as such, or right action, or co‐operation). These misjudged moves are generally marked by the assumption that democracy displaces power. But if democracy ultimately persists as a voting procedure, its …
Overwhelming power
The paradigm case of power as ‘power over’ (not ‘power to') betrays a concern (1) more with the capacity to dominate others than with the unqualified capacity to act as such; (2) more with the fact, than with the morality, of dominance ‐ underscoring the key analytical distinction between ‘power’ and ‘authority'; and (3) more with compulsion than co‐operation. The three moves to combine (1) ‘power over’ with ‘power to’, (2) ‘power’ with ‘authorit…
Liberty as power
Liberty is viewed as the reigning paradigm of our age, but it is a paradigm in crisis. It is conventionally divided into two types, positive and negative. The argument here is that both types can be seen to presuppose some capacity, which may extend to power. Liberty, however, is normally accorded a higher moral value than power. But if liberty is taken itself to reflect a commitment to power, then the disvalue ostensibly placed upon the latter i…
Constitutionalism and the despatch‐box principle
This essay presents a construct of constitutionalism. This is to do with more than a ‘constitution’, or a ‘corporate organisation’, or ‘majority rule’. Constitutionalism is marked by a particular type of corporate rule, featuring a persistent (continuing) popular sovereignty, in which all who are governed are members, have a duty of mutual respect, enjoy an equal share in the vote, and are equally subject to the law. Under constitutionalism, the …
Liberty
‘Negative’ and ‘positive’ liberty are not distinct types of freedom. They represent distinct points of stress within the one logical matrix. The abstract logical formula for liberty is taken to be ‘A is free from x to do y’, where ‘from x’ is taken to implicate ‘to do y’, and vice versa. By contrast, concrete cases of freedom ('rights'), such as ‘from hunger’ or ‘to speak’, are taken always to contradict other concrete cases, such as property rig…
Trusting in reason
How not to overshoot the evidence in historical logic
(2002). How not to overshoot the evidence in historical logic. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 92-100
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