Publications of Thomas A. Spragens
Books
- Spragens, TA, 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.".) .
- Spragens, TA, Getting the Left Right: The Transformation, Decline, and Reformation of American Liberalism
(2009), University Press of Kansas .
- Spragens, TA, Reason and Democracy
(1990),
pp. xi-281 pages, Durham, NC. Duke University Press .
- Spragens, TA, The Dilemma of Contemporary Political Theory: Toward a Postbehavioral Science of Politics
(1973),
pp. ix-181 pages, New York: Dunellen Co. (foreward by Morton A. Kaplan.) .
- Spragens, TA, The Irony of Liberal Reason
(1981),
pp. vii-443 pages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press .
- Spragens, TA, The Politics of Motion: The World of Thomas Hobbes
(1973),
pp. 224 pages, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky (Published in Great Britain by Croom-Helm, Ltd., with a foreword by Anthony Flew..) .
- Spragens, TA, Understanding Political Theory
(1976),
pp. vii-155 pages, New York: St. Martin’s .
Chapters in Books
- Spragens, TA, Between Bigotry and Nihilism: Moral Judgment in Pluralist Democracies,
in Speak No Evil: Moral Judgment in the Modern Age, edited by Grant, R
(2004), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois) .
- Spragens, TA, Beyond Bigotry and Nihilism: Moral Judgment in Pluralist Democracies,
in Naming Evil, Judging Evil, edited by Grant, R
(2006), University of Chicago Press .
- Spragens, TA, Church and State in Liberal America: Locke and Tocqueville Revisited,
in Politics, Reason, and the Human Good, edited by Hunt, RP
(2003) .
- Spragens, TA, Communitarian Liberalism,
in New Communitarian Thinking, edited by Etzioni, A
(1995), Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press .
- Spragens, TA, David Hume’s Experimental Science of Morals and the Natural Law Tradition,
in The Ethical Bases of Political Life, edited by Canavan, F
(1983), Durham, NC. Duke University Press .
- Spragens, TA, Justification, Practical Reason, and Political Theory,
in Justification, vol. NOMOS no. XXVIII
(1986), New York and London: New York University Press .
- 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) .
- 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 .
- Spragens, TA, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies,
in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Etzioni, A; Volmert, A; Rothschild, E
(2004), Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers .
- Spragens, TA, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies,
in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Etzioni, A; Volmert, A; Rothschild, E
(2004), Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland) .
- Spragens, TA, Rationality in Liberal Politics,
in Political Theory and Partisan Politics, edited by Gundersen, A; Shively, R
(2000), Albany, N.Y: SUNY Press .
- Spragens, TA, Reconstructing Liberal Theory: Reason and Liberal Culture,
in Liberals on Liberalism, edited by Damico, AJ
(1986), Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers .
- Spragens, TA, The Limitations of Libertarianism, Parts 1 and 2,
in Responsive Community, vol. 2, Issues 1 and 2
(1991) (Reprinted in Terence Ball and Richard
Dagger, eds., Ideals and Ideologies: A
Reader, 3rd edition (New York: Longman,
1999)..) .
- Spragens, TA, 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 Finkel, NJ; Moghaddam, FM
(2005), Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association .
Journal Articles
- Spragens, TA, Communitarianism: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Reminder,
The Responsive Community, vol. 14 no. 2/3
(2004) .
- with Spragens, TA; Miroff, B, Critical Dialogue, edited by Isaac, J,
Perspectives on Politics, vol. Vol. 8 no. No. 2
(June, 2010),
pp. 617-23, American Political Science Association .
- Spragens, TA, Democratic Reasonableness,
Contemporary Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 11 no. 2
(June, 2008),
pp. 193-214, Informa UK Limited .
- Spragens, TA, Is the Enlightenment Project Worth Saving?,
Modern Age, vol. 43 no. 1
(Winter, 2001) .
- Spragens, TA, Justice, Consensus, and Boundaries: Assessing Political Liberalism,
Political Theory, vol. 31 no. 4
(August, 2003) .
- Spragens, TA, POPULIST PERFECTIONISM: THE OTHER AMERICAN LIBERALISM,
Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 24 no. 1
(Winter, 2007),
pp. 141-163, Cambridge University Press (CUP) .
- Spragens, TA, Reply to Bruce Miroff's review of Getting the Left Right: The Transformation, Decline, and Reformation of American Liberalism,
Perspectives on Politics, vol. 8 no. 2
(January, 2010),
pp. 622-623, Cambridge University Press (CUP) .
- Spragens, TA, The Antinomies of Social Justice,
The Review of Politics, vol. 55 no. 2
(Spring, 1993),
pp. 193-216, Cambridge University Press (CUP) .
- Spragens, TA, The Bounds of Civic Morality,
The Responsive Community, vol. 11 no. 4
(Fall, 2001),
pp. 41-47 .
- Spragens, TA, The Politics of Inertia and Gravitation: The Function of Exemplar Paradigms in Social Theory,
Polity
(Spring, 1973) .