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Publications of Thomas A Spragens     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. T.A. Spragens, The Transformation and Decline of American Liberalism (2009), Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas .
  2. T.A. Spragens, Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Ideals (1999), Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (Winner of the 2001 Elaine and David Spitz Prize for "best English language work of its year on the subject of liberal and/or democratic theory, broadly defined.".) .
  3. T.A. Spragens, Reason and Democracy (1990), pp. xi-281, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press .
  4. T.A. Spragens, The Irony of Liberal Reason (1981), pp. vii-443, Chicago: University of Chicago Press .
  5. T.A. Spragens, Understanding Political Theory (1976), pp. vii-155, New York: St. Martin's .
  6. T.A. Spragens, The Dilemma of Contemporary Political Theory: Toward a Postbehavioral Science of Politics (1973), pp. ix-181, New York: Dunellen Co. (foreward by Morton A. Kaplan.) .
  7. T.A. Spragens, The Politics of Motion: The World of Thomas Hobbes (1973), pp. 224, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky (Published in Great Britain by Croom-Helm, Ltd., with a foreword by Anthony Flew..) .

Chapters in Books

  1. T.A. Spragens, Beyond Bigotry and Nihilism: Moral Judgment in Pluralist Democracies, in Naming Evil, Judging Evil, edited by Ruth Grant (2006), University of Chicago Press .
  2. T.A. Spragens, Theories of Justice, Rights, and Duties: Negotiating the Interface Between Normative and Empirical Theory, in Human Rights and Duties: Psychology's Contributions, the Law's Commentary, edited by Norman J. Finkel and Fathali M. Moghaddam (2005), Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association .
  3. T.A. Spragens, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies, in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Amitai Etzioni, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild (2004), Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland) .
  4. T.A. Spragens, Between Bigotry and Nihilism: Moral Judgment in Pluralist Democracies, in Speak No Evil: Moral Judgment in the Modern Age, edited by Ruth Grant (forthcoming), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois) .
  5. T.A. Spragens, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies, in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Amitar Etzioni, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild (2004), Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers .
  6. T.A. Spragens, Church and State in Liberal America: Locke and Tocqueville Revisited, in Politics, Reason, and the Human Good, edited by Robert P. Hunt (2003) .
  7. T.A. Spragens, Rationality in Liberal Politics, in Political Theory and Partisan Politics, edited by Adolf Gundersen and Ruth Shively (2000), Albany, N.Y: SUNY Press .
  8. T.A. Spragens, Communitarian Liberalism, in New Communitarian Thinking, edited by Amitai Etzioni (1995), Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press .
  9. T.A. Spragens, The Limitations of Libertarianism, Parts 1 and 2, in Responsive Community, vol. 2, Issues 1 and 2 (Winter 1991 and Spring 1992) (Reprinted in Terence Ball and Richard Dagger, eds., Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, 3rd edition (New York: Longman, 1999)..) .
  10. T.A. Spragens, Reconstructing Liberal Theory: Reason and Liberal Culture, in Liberals on Liberalism, edited by A. J. Damico (1986), Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers .
  11. T.A. Spragens, Justification, Practical Reason, and Political Theory, in Justification, vol. NOMOS no. XXVIII (1986), New York and London: New York University Press .
  12. T.A. Spragens, David Hume's Experimental Science of Morals and the Natural Law Tradition, in The Ethical Bases of Political Life, edited by Francis Canavan (1983), Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press .

Journal Articles

  1. T.A. Spragens, Democratic Reasonableness, Contemporary Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 11 no. 2 (June, 2008), pp. 193-214 .
  2. T.A. Spragens, Populist Perfectionism: The Other American Liberalism, Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 24 no. 1 (Winter, 2007), pp. 141-163 .
  3. T.A. Spragens, Communitarianism: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Reminder, The Responsive Community, vol. 14 no. 2/3 (Spring/Summer 2004) .
  4. T.A. Spragens, Justice, Consensus, and Boundaries: Assessing Political Liberalism, Political Theory, vol. 31 no. 4 (August 2003) .
  5. T.A. Spragens, Is the Enlightenment Project Worth Saving?, Modern Age, vol. 43 no. 1 (Winter, 2001) .
  6. T.A. Spragens, The Bounds of Civic Morality, The Responsive Community, vol. 11 no. 4 (Fall, 2001), pp. 41-47 .
  7. T.A. Spragens, The Antinomies of Social Justice, The Review of Politics, vol. 55 no. 2 (Spring, 1993) .
  8. T.A. Spragens, The Politics of Inertia and Gravitation: The Function of Exemplar Paradigms in Social Theory, Polity (Spring, 1973) .