@article {693466, title = {"John Rawls and {\textquoteright}Our Tradition{\textquoteright} of Democracy"}, journal = {La Revue Tocqueville/The Tocqueville Review}, volume = {43}, number = {1}, year = {2022}, pages = {21-50}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @webarticle {686537, title = {Signs of the Sacred}, journal = {Commonweal Magazine}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/signs-sacred}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @inbook {693467, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Social and Economic Democracy{\textquotedblright}}, booktitle = {A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age}, volume = {6}, year = {2021}, pages = {21-50}, publisher = {Bloomsbury}, organization = {Bloomsbury}, address = {London}, author = {Kloppenberg, JT and Gee, John}, editor = {Biagini, Eugenio and Gerstle, Gary} } @webarticle {680433, title = {Rereading Obama}, journal = {Democracy: A Journal of Ideas}, year = {2021}, url = {https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/rereading-obama/}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @webarticle {670036, title = {Rebuilding the American {\textquoteleft}We{\textquoteright}}, journal = {Democracy: A Journal of Ideas}, number = {Winter, No. 59}, year = {2020}, url = {https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/59/rebuilding-the-american-we/}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @webarticle {662918, title = {Why the Left Must Work with Liberals}, journal = {Commonweal Magazine}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/why-left-must-work-liberals}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @article {655808, title = {To Promote the General Welfare: Why Madison Matters}, journal = {The Supreme Court Review}, year = {2020}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @magazinearticle {651452, title = {Reading Buttigieg}, journal = {Commonweal Magazine}, volume = {147}, number = {3}, year = {2020}, pages = {24-33}, url = {https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/reading-buttigieg}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @article {651451, title = {The Receding Horizon of Democracy}, journal = {Modern Intellectual History}, volume = {16}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, pages = {621-632}, url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/receding-horizon-of-democracy/C1B026D69ED2C91C0D37C42BCE97D83F}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @newspaperarticle {638417, title = {When Political Conflict Led to Compromise, Not Enmity}, journal = {The Washington Post}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/when-political-conflict-led-to-compromise-not-enmity/2019/03/14/67d33160-39f5-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html?utm_term=.28a8c4c5a2d9}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @article {638416, title = {Interchange: Money, Corruption, and Politics in US History}, journal = {The Journal of American History }, volume = {105}, number = {4}, year = {2019}, url = {https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/105/4/912/5352872}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @newspaperarticle {638415, title = {How Disinformation, Voter Suppression and Partisanship Destroy Democracy}, journal = {The Washington Post}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-disinformation-voter-suppression-and-partisanship-destroy-democracy/2018/10/26/270f0462-d08f-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html?utm_term=.ec676fec21c5}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @newspaperarticle {497911, title = {Trump{\textquoteright}s Inaugural Address Was a Radical Break with American Tradition}, journal = {The Washington Post}, year = {2017}, month = {20 January 2017}, url = {https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/20/trumps-inaugural-address-was-a-radical-break-with-american-tradition/?utm_term=.7f90f0a53817}, author = {Kloppenberg JT} } @newspaperarticle {459986, title = {How Obama Sees America}, journal = {The Chronicle of Higher Education}, year = {2016}, month = {September 2016}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @article {459981, title = {Still the Party We Remember}, journal = {Democracy: A Journal of Ideas}, year = {2016}, month = {September 2016}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @book {403231, title = {Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, url = {http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jameskloppenberg/files/toward_democracy_extended_notes.pdf}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @inbook {213351, title = {Barack Obama and Progressive Democracy}, booktitle = {Schulman B. Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York City}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @article {120206, title = {A Well-Tempered Liberalism: Modern Intellectual History and Political Theory}, journal = {Modern Intellectual History}, volume = {10}, number = {3}, year = {2013}, pages = {655-682}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @article {102511, title = {Thinking Historically: A Manifesto of Pragmatic Hermeneutics}, journal = {Modern Intellectual History}, volume = {9}, number = {1}, year = {2012}, pages = {201-216}, author = {Kloppenberg, James} } @magazinearticle {213106, title = {Obama Is Doing Just What He Said He Would Do}, journal = {Newsweek}, year = {2010}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @inbook {10985, title = {"Requiescat in Pacem: The Liberal Tradition of Louis Hartz"}, booktitle = {The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered: The Contested Legacy of Louis Hartz }, year = {2010}, publisher = {University Press of Kansas}, organization = {University Press of Kansas}, address = {Lawrence}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T}, editor = {Mark Hulliung} } @inbook {10981, title = {"James{\textquoteright}s Pragmatism and American Culture, 1907-2007"}, booktitle = {100 Years of Pragmatism: William James{\textquoteright}s Revolutionary Philosophy}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, organization = {Indiana University Press}, address = {Bloomington}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T}, editor = {John Stuhr} } @book {10179, title = {Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition}, year = {2010}, note = {Reviews: "In Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes, and the American Political Tradition, James Kloppenberg, one of America{\textquoteright}s foremost intellectual historians, persuasively argues that this transition in Rawls{\textquoteright}s work reflects a broader shift in American philosophy away from appeal to general principles, valid at all times and in all places, toward a reliance on local, historically particular values and ideals. Kloppenberg{\textquoteright}s own endeavor, in surveying the work in political and legal theory that seems to have shaped President Obama{\textquoteright}s thinking, is to argue for the coherence, the Americanness, and the plausibility of Obama{\textquoteright}s approach to politics and to the Constitution."--Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books "In short, Mr. Kloppenberg{\textquoteright}s brief intellectual biography of Mr. Obama provides an excellent portrait of the shining self-image of the progressive intellectual."--Peter Berkowitz, Wall Street Journal "One of Kloppenberg{\textquoteright}s most important claims is that Obama embodies the spirit of pragmatism--not the colloquial pragmatism that is more or less the same thing as practicality, but the philosophical pragmatism that emerged largely from William James and John Dewey and continued to flourish through the work of Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and others. Kloppenberg provides an excellent summary of the pragmatic tradition--a tradition rooted in the belief that there are no eternal truths, that all ideas and convictions must meet the test of usefulness. . . Kloppenberg is best when he analyzes Obama{\textquoteright}s own writing--Dreams from My Father, The Audacity of Hope, and some of his memorable speeches. He gives an excellent analysis of Obama{\textquoteright}s views of Lincoln and of the ways in which he has come to terms with race."--Alan Brinkley, Democracy}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, abstract = {Barack Obama puzzles observers. Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Obama does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Instead, his writings and speeches reflect a principled aversion to absolutes that derives from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. Reading Obama traces the origins of his ideas and establishes him as the most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the past century. James T. Kloppenberg demonstrates the influences that have shaped Obama{\textquoteright}s distinctive worldview, including Nietzsche and Niebuhr, Ellison and Rawls, and recent theorists engaged in debates about feminism, critical race theory, and cultural norms. Examining Obama{\textquoteright}s views on the Constitution, slavery and the Civil War, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement, Kloppenberg shows Obama{\textquoteright}s sophisticated understanding of American history. Obama{\textquoteright}s interest in compromise, reasoned public debate, and the patient nurturing of civility is a sign of strength, not weakness, Kloppenberg argues. He locates its roots in Madison, Lincoln, and especially in the philosophical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey, which nourished generations of American progressives, black and white, female and male, through much of the twentieth century, albeit with mixed results. Reading Obama reveals the sources of Obama{\textquoteright}s commitment to democratic deliberation: the books he has read, the visionaries who have inspired him, the social movements and personal struggles that have shaped his thinking. Kloppenberg shows that Obama{\textquoteright}s positions on social justice, religion, race, family, and America{\textquoteright}s role in the world do not stem from a desire to please everyone but from deeply rooted--although currently unfashionable--convictions about how a democracy must deal with difference and conflict.}, url = {http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9277.html}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @inbook {10993, title = {"Liberalism"}, booktitle = {The Princeton Encyclopedia of United States Political History}, year = {2008}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T}, editor = {Michael Kazin} } @article {10991, title = {"Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Visionary"}, journal = {Review in American History}, volume = {34}, year = {2006}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @inbook {10978, title = {"The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism"}, booktitle = {The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II}, year = {2006}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, organization = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, address = {Baltimore}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T}, editor = {David A. Hollinger} } @article {10970, title = {"Tocqueville, Mill, and the American Gentry"}, journal = {La Revue Tocqueville/The Tocqueville Review}, volume = {27}, number = {2}, year = {2006}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @article {10967, title = {"The Canvas and the Color: Tocqueville{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteright}Philosophical History{\textquoteright} and Why it Matters Now"}, journal = {Modern Intellectual History}, volume = {3}, number = {3}, year = {2006}, pages = {495-521}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @article {10965, title = {"Pragmatism and the Practice of History"}, journal = {Metaphilosophy}, volume = {35}, year = {2004}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @inbook {10975, title = {"Intellectual History, Democracy, and the Culture of Irony"}, booktitle = {The State of American History}, year = {2002}, publisher = {Berg Publishers}, organization = {Berg Publishers}, address = {Oxford}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T}, editor = {Melvyn Stokes} } @book {10195, title = {A Companion to American Thought}, year = {1998}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, organization = {Wiley-Blackwell}, url = {http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0631206566.html}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T and Richard Wightman Fox} } @book {10186, title = {The Virtues of Liberalism}, year = {1998}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {This spirited analysis--and defense--of American liberalism demonstrates the complex and rich traditions of political, economic, and social discourse that have informed American democratic culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The Virtues of Liberalism provides a convincing response to critics both right and left. Against conservatives outside the academy who oppose liberalism because they equate it with license, James T. Kloppenberg uncovers ample evidence of American republicans{\textquoteright} and liberal democrats{\textquoteright} commitments to ethical and religious ideals and their awareness of the difficult choices involved in promoting virtue in a culturally diverse nation. Against radical academic critics who reject liberalism because they equate it with Enlightenment reason and individual property holding, Kloppenberg shows the historical roots of American liberals{\textquoteright} dual commitments to diversity, manifested in institutions designed to facilitate deliberative democracy, and to government regulations of property and market exchange in accordance with the public good. In contrast to prevailing tendencies to simplify and distort American liberalism, Kloppenberg shows how the multifaceted virtues of liberalism have inspired theorists and reformers from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison through Jane Addams and John Dewey to Martin Luther King, Jr., and then explains how these virtues persist in the work of some liberal democrats today. Endorsing the efforts of such neo-progressive and communitarian theorists and journalists as Michael Walzer, Jane Mansbridge, Michael Sandel, and E. J. Dionne, Kloppenberg also offers a more acute analysis of the historical development of American liberalism and of the complex reasons why it has been transformed and made more vulnerable in recent decades. An intelligent, coherent, and persuasive canvas that stretches from the Enlightenment to the American Revolution, from Tocqueville{\textquoteright}s observations to the New Deal{\textquoteright}s social programs, and from the right to worship freely to the idea of ethical responsibility, this book is a valuable contribution to historical scholarship and to contemporary political and cultural debates. }, url = {http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/EarlyNational/?view=usa\&ci=9780195121407}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @article {10963, title = {"Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?"}, journal = {Journal of American History}, volume = {83}, number = {1}, year = {1996}, pages = {100-138}, author = {Kloppenberg, James T} } @book {10958, title = {Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 }, year = {1986}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {awarded the 1987 Merle Curti Prize by the Organization of American Historians}, url = {http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/Canadian/?view=usa\&ci=9780195053043}, author = {Jame T. Kloppenberg} }