The Suicide of Reason (Record no. 16886)
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| fixed length control field | 01136nam a2200133 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781458759443 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lee Harris |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Suicide of Reason |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | ReadHowYouWant.com |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 386 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Whether by choice or not, the West finds itself in a low-grade yet bitter war with Islamic fanaticism. It is a war the West is singularly illequipped to fight. The foe is resistant to any of the normal methods of conflict resolution such as negotiation, economic sanctions, or conventional armed confrontation. Since the Enlightenment, the West has forgotten how to oppose fanaticism, and it is Lee Harris's goal to remind us what we are up against. In The Suicide of Reason, he explains the logic of fanatical movements from the Crusades through Nazism to radical Islam; describes how the Enlightenment overcame fanatical thinking in the West; shows why most Western attempts to address the problem are doomed to fail; and offers strategies by which liberal internationalism can defend itself without becoming a mirror of the tribal forces it is trying to defeat. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Politics |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 12/15/2023 | 620.53 HARR | 68707 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |