The Suicide of Reason
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TextPublication details: ReadHowYouWant.comDescription: 386 pagesISBN: - 9781458759443
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| 620 PETR Small Things Considered | 620.1 STAU Clay | 620.5 RATN Nanotechnology | 620.53 HARR The Suicide of Reason | 620.8 NORM The Design of Everyday Things | 621 KRUP Earth: The Sequel | 621.3 MILB Schrodinger's Machines |
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.
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