Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780465010226)

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.

Author: Lee Harris
ISBN-10: 0465010229
ISBN-13: 9780465010226
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.96h x 6.96w x 0.81d