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The suicide of reason : radical Islam's threat to the enlightenment / Lee Harris.

By: Harris, Lee, 1948-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Basic Books, c2007Description: xxi, 290 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780465002030.Subject(s): Fanaticism -- Psychological aspects | Religious fanaticism -- Psychological aspectsOnline resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Fanaticism and the myth of modernity -- The denial of fanaticism -- Fanaticism and resentment -- The end of history? -- Clash or crash? -- The fanaticism of reason -- Demystifying reason -- Thomas Hobbes and the politics of reason -- Condorcet's tenth stage -- Reason and autonomy -- Liberal exceptionalism -- The logic of fanaticism -- The legacy and future of jihad -- Can carpe diem societies survive? -- Our new world disorder.
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Includes index.

Fanaticism and the myth of modernity -- The denial of fanaticism -- Fanaticism and resentment -- The end of history? -- Clash or crash? -- The fanaticism of reason -- Demystifying reason -- Thomas Hobbes and the politics of reason -- Condorcet's tenth stage -- Reason and autonomy -- Liberal exceptionalism -- The logic of fanaticism -- The legacy and future of jihad -- Can carpe diem societies survive? -- Our new world disorder.

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