The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465010229 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Believe what I believe or die!" An important book changes your view of your world. Harris' "The Suicide of Reason" succeeds in doing this and points out serious threats to the survival of Western Civilization from the inside and the outside. Harris shows that the most important message that America's leaders have failed to grasp is that not everybody sees the world the same way. Harris' "rational actors" act to change th. Five Stars My husband is thoroughly enjoying this book. I'll read it after he's done.. tribal fanaticism will win unless we change Ms barbara The beginning of this book is excellent explaining why the societies of reason will loose in this battle with tribalism. I understand a lot more now. The middle of the book was way too bogged down for me with a history lesson about the Frence Revolution etc etc. I thought it was very boring. The last of the book was interesting but frankly he states we have lost in Iraq which may have been
Lee Harris is the author of Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History and a frequent contributor to Policy Review, the Wall Street Journal’s “Opinion Journal,” and other publications, both print and online. He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
About the AuthorLee Harris is the author of Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History and a frequent contributor to Policy Review, the Wall Street Journal’s “Opinion Journal,” and other publications, both print and online. He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
The foe is resistant to any of the normal methods of conflict resolution such as negotiation, economic sanctions, or conventional armed confrontation. It is a war the West is singularly ill-equipped to fight. 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.. Whether by choice or not, the West finds itself in a low-grade yet bitter war with Islamic fanaticism