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Item Details
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THE SUICIDE OF REASON
RADICAL ISLAM'S THREAT TO THE WEST |
By: |
Lee Harris |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£14.38 |
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ISBN 10: |
0465008690 |
ISBN 13: |
9780465008698 |
Publisher: |
THE PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP |
Pub. date: |
2 August, 2007 |
Description: |
From a ? startlingly original and visionary" writer (Salon), a disturbing and far-ranging look at the West's vulnerability to fanaticism. |
Synopsis: |
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 ill-equipped 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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US |
Imprint: |
Basic Books |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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