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The suicide of reason : radical Islam's threat to the enlightenment  Cover Image Book Book

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

Harris, Lee, 1948- (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780465002030 :
  • Physical Description: 279 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Fanaticism and the myth of modernity -- The denial of fanaticism -- Fanaticism and resentment -- The end of history? -- Clash or crash? -- The fanaticism of reason -- De-mystifying 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.
Subject: Fanaticism > Psychological aspects.
Religious fanaticism > Psychological aspects.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nazareth. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 303.48 H3149 2007 (Text) 31001101258979 Adult Non Fiction Available -


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