Publications of Thomas A. Spragens
%% Books
@book{fds305585,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Getting the Left Right: The Transformation, Decline, and
Reformation of American Liberalism},
Publisher = {University Press of Kansas},
Year = {2009},
Key = {fds305585}
}
@book{fds297427,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic
Ideals},
Publisher = {Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers},
Year = {1999},
Key = {fds297427}
}
@book{fds297426,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Reason and Democracy},
Pages = {xi-281 pages},
Publisher = {Durham, NC. Duke University Press},
Year = {1990},
Key = {fds297426}
}
@book{fds297425,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {The Irony of Liberal Reason},
Pages = {vii-443 pages},
Publisher = {Chicago: University of Chicago Press},
Year = {1981},
Key = {fds297425}
}
@book{fds297424,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Understanding Political Theory},
Pages = {vii-155 pages},
Publisher = {New York: St. Martin’s},
Year = {1976},
Key = {fds297424}
}
@book{fds297422,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {The Politics of Motion: The World of Thomas
Hobbes},
Pages = {224 pages},
Publisher = {Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of
Kentucky},
Year = {1973},
Key = {fds297422}
}
@book{fds297423,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {The Dilemma of Contemporary Political Theory: Toward a
Postbehavioral Science of Politics},
Pages = {ix-181 pages},
Publisher = {New York: Dunellen Co.},
Year = {1973},
Key = {fds297423}
}
%% Chapters in Books
@misc{fds297419,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Beyond Bigotry and Nihilism: Moral Judgment in Pluralist
Democracies},
Booktitle = {Naming Evil, Judging Evil},
Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
Editor = {Grant, R},
Year = {2006},
Key = {fds297419}
}
@misc{fds297418,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Theories of Justice, Rights, and Duties: Negotiating the
Interface Between Normative and Empirical
Theory},
Booktitle = {Human Rights and Duties: Psychology’s Contributions, the
Law’s Commentary},
Publisher = {Washington, D.C.: American Psychological
Association},
Editor = {Finkel, NJ and Moghaddam, FM},
Year = {2005},
Key = {fds297418}
}
@misc{fds28741,
Author = {T.A. Spragens},
Title = {Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies},
Booktitle = {The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials},
Publisher = {Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland)},
Editor = {Amitai Etzioni and Andrew Volmert and Elanit
Rothschild},
Year = {2004},
Key = {fds28741}
}
@misc{fds39503,
Author = {T.A. Spragens},
Title = {Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies},
Booktitle = {The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials},
Publisher = {Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers},
Editor = {Amitar Etzioni and Andrew Volmert and Elanit
Rothschild},
Year = {2004},
Key = {fds39503}
}
@misc{fds297415,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies},
Booktitle = {The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials},
Publisher = {Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers},
Editor = {Etzioni, A and Volmert, A and Rothschild, E},
Year = {2004},
Key = {fds297415}
}
@misc{fds297416,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Between Bigotry and Nihilism: Moral Judgment in Pluralist
Democracies},
Booktitle = {Speak No Evil: Moral Judgment in the Modern
Age},
Publisher = {University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois)},
Editor = {Grant, R},
Year = {2004},
Key = {fds297416}
}
@misc{fds297417,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies},
Booktitle = {The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials},
Publisher = {Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland)},
Editor = {Etzioni, A and Volmert, A and Rothschild, E},
Year = {2004},
Key = {fds297417}
}
@misc{fds297414,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Church and State in Liberal America: Locke and Tocqueville
Revisited},
Booktitle = {Politics, Reason, and the Human Good},
Editor = {Hunt, RP},
Year = {2003},
Key = {fds297414}
}
@misc{fds297413,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Rationality in Liberal Politics},
Booktitle = {Political Theory and Partisan Politics},
Publisher = {Albany, N.Y: SUNY Press},
Editor = {Gundersen, A and Shively, R},
Year = {2000},
Key = {fds297413}
}
@misc{fds297412,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Communitarian Liberalism},
Booktitle = {New Communitarian Thinking},
Publisher = {Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press},
Editor = {Etzioni, A},
Year = {1995},
Key = {fds297412}
}
@misc{fds297411,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {The Limitations of Libertarianism, Parts 1 and
2},
Volume = {2, Issues 1 and 2},
Booktitle = {Responsive Community},
Year = {1991},
Key = {fds297411}
}
@misc{fds297409,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Justification, Practical Reason, and Political
Theory},
Volume = {NOMOS},
Number = {XXVIII},
Booktitle = {Justification},
Publisher = {New York and London: New York University
Press},
Year = {1986},
Key = {fds297409}
}
@misc{fds297410,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Reconstructing Liberal Theory: Reason and Liberal
Culture},
Booktitle = {Liberals on Liberalism},
Publisher = {Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers},
Editor = {Damico, AJ},
Year = {1986},
Key = {fds297410}
}
@misc{fds297408,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {David Hume’s Experimental Science of Morals and the
Natural Law Tradition},
Booktitle = {The Ethical Bases of Political Life},
Publisher = {Durham, NC. Duke University Press},
Editor = {Canavan, F},
Year = {1983},
Key = {fds297408}
}
%% Journal Articles
@article{fds297420,
Author = {T.A. Spragens and Spragens, TA and Miroff, B},
Title = {Critical Dialogue},
Journal = {Perspectives on Politics},
Volume = {Vol. 8},
Number = {No. 2},
Pages = {617-23},
Publisher = {American Political Science Association},
Editor = {Isaac, J},
Year = {2010},
Month = {June},
Key = {fds297420}
}
@article{fds297428,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Reply to Bruce Miroff's review of Getting the Left Right:
The Transformation, Decline, and Reformation of American
Liberalism},
Journal = {Perspectives on Politics},
Volume = {8},
Number = {2},
Pages = {622-623},
Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
Year = {2010},
Month = {January},
ISSN = {1537-5927},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000278895900028&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Doi = {10.1017/S1537592710000484},
Key = {fds297428}
}
@article{fds297429,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Democratic Reasonableness},
Journal = {Contemporary Review of International Social and Political
Philosophy},
Volume = {11},
Number = {2},
Pages = {193-214},
Publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
Year = {2008},
Month = {June},
Abstract = {This essay considers the nature of reasonableness, the
distinctive elements of democratic reasonableness, and the
benefits that having reasonable citizens confer upon
democratic societies. The central theses of the essay
include the claims that we can identify a set of norms and a
mode of political behavior justifiably construable as
constituting democratic reasonableness and that widespread
adherence to norms of democratic reasonableness contributes
significantly to the stability, legitimacy, and
effectiveness of democratic regimes. There are, however,
limits to the substantive determinacy of judgments
predicated upon these norms, which are largely procedural
even though they are grounded in core democratic moral
axioms; and the failure to observe and respect these limits
can be counterproductive. © 2008 Copyright Taylor and
Francis Group, LLC.},
Doi = {10.1080/13698230802021363},
Key = {fds297429}
}
@article{fds297430,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {POPULIST PERFECTIONISM: THE OTHER AMERICAN
LIBERALISM},
Journal = {Social Philosophy and Policy},
Volume = {24},
Number = {1},
Pages = {141-163},
Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
Year = {2007},
Month = {Winter},
ISSN = {0265-0525},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000243777200006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Abstract = {<jats:p>Recent debates over American liberalism have largely
ignored one way of understanding democratic purposes that
was widely influential for much of American history. This
normative conception of democracy was inspired by
philosophical ideas found in people such as John Stuart Mill
and G. W. F. Hegel rather than by rights-based or civic
republican theories. Walt Whitman and John Dewey were among
its notable adherents. There is much that can be said on
behalf of Richard Rorty's recent argument that American
liberals would be well advised to recover and reclaim the
heritage of Whitman and Dewey; but some additions and
emendations to his construction of these champions of
democracy would strengthen his case.</jats:p>},
Doi = {10.1017/s0265052507070069},
Key = {fds297430}
}
@article{fds297431,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Communitarianism: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful
Reminder},
Journal = {The Responsive Community},
Volume = {14},
Number = {2/3},
Year = {2004},
Key = {fds297431}
}
@article{fds297436,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Justice, Consensus, and Boundaries: Assessing Political
Liberalism},
Journal = {Political Theory},
Volume = {31},
Number = {4},
Year = {2003},
Month = {August},
Key = {fds297436}
}
@article{fds297435,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {Is the Enlightenment Project Worth Saving?},
Journal = {Modern Age},
Volume = {43},
Number = {1},
Year = {2001},
Month = {Winter},
Key = {fds297435}
}
@article{fds297434,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {The Bounds of Civic Morality},
Journal = {The Responsive Community},
Volume = {11},
Number = {4},
Pages = {41-47},
Year = {2001},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds297434}
}
@article{fds297432,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {The Antinomies of Social Justice},
Journal = {The Review of Politics},
Volume = {55},
Number = {2},
Pages = {193-216},
Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
Year = {1993},
Month = {Spring},
Abstract = {Theories of social justice are either hegemonic (defending a
single determinate standard), skeptical (finding social
justice to be radically indeterminate if not meaningless),
or pluralistic (claiming that we can disqualify all but a
handful of standards, but that we cannot definitively
adjudicate among these). I offer here a variation of the
pluralistic view, arguing that a single standard cannot be
definitive because of what is termed the antinomies of
social justice. These antinomies arise where the demands of
justice collide with elements of the gratuitous that are
morally valid or are practically unavoidable. Where this
occurs, all possible distribution rules turn out to be
unfair. An important implication of the argument is that
liberal democracies cannot find their grounds for consensus,
as John Rawls contends, in a common attachment to principles
of justice. Instead, common interests and civic friendship
will always be necessary supplements to the sense of justice
as a source of social bonds in a free society. © 1993,
University of Notre Dame. All rights reserved.},
Doi = {10.1017/S0034670500017356},
Key = {fds297432}
}
@article{fds297433,
Author = {Spragens, TA},
Title = {The Politics of Inertia and Gravitation: The Function of
Exemplar Paradigms in Social Theory},
Journal = {Polity},
Year = {1973},
Month = {Spring},
Key = {fds297433}
}