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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c2007.Description: xxi, 290 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780465002030
  • 046500203X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/2 22
LOC classification:
  • BF575.F16 H27 2007
Other classification:
  • 89.62
Online resources:
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Frykenberg Collection ARCH FRBC 303.482 H313S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 045077
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ARCH FRBC 303.48 B945O Occidentalism : ARCH FRBC 303.48 H841I Islam in European thought / ARCH FRBC 303.48 S941E Europe's India : words, people, empires, 1500-1800 / ARCH FRBC 303.482 H313S The suicide of reason : ARCH FRBC 303.48/254073 J67C Ah, Columbus! : ARCH FRBC 303.484 A234P C1 Pandita Ramabai / ARCH FRBC 303.484 A234P C2 Pandita Ramabai /

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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