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Books

  1. 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.) .
  2. 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..) .
  3. T.A. Spragens, Understanding Political Theory (1976), pp. vii-155, New York: St. Martin's .
  4. T.A. Spragens, The Irony of Liberal Reason (1981), pp. vii-443, Chicago: University of Chicago Press .
  5. T.A. Spragens, Reason and Democracy (1990), pp. xi-281, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press .
  6. 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.".) .
  7. T.A. Spragens, The Transformation and Decline of American Liberalism (2009), Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas .

Chapters in Books

  1. 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 .
  2. 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 .
  3. T.A. Spragens, Justification, Practical Reason, and Political Theory, in Justification, vol. NOMOS no. XXVIII (1986), New York and London: New York University Press .
  4. 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)..) .
  5. T.A. Spragens, Communitarian Liberalism, in New Communitarian Thinking, edited by Amitai Etzioni (1995), Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press .
  6. 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 .
  7. 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) .
  8. 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 .
  9. 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) .
  10. 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) .
  11. 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 .
  12. 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 .

Journal Articles

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