The suicide of reason : radical Islam's threat to the enlightenment /
Lee Harris.
- New York : Basic Books, c2007.
- xxi, 290 p. ; 25 cm.
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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Fanaticism--Psychological aspects. Religious fanaticism--Psychological aspects.