The suicide of reason: radical Islam's threat to the enlightenment
Whether by choice or not, the West finds itself in a low-grade yet bitter war with Islamic fanaticism--a war the West is 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. This...
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| Summary: | Whether by choice or not, the West finds itself in a low-grade yet bitter war with Islamic fanaticism--a war the West is 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. This book shows how modern liberal societies, whose political theories are born of the Enlightenment, are unfamiliar with the nature of mass fanaticism. The West can only think of it as a social pathology, a failure to modernize, rather than as what it is: a variety of social order that is not only fully viable in the modern world but also willing to use weapons to which the West is uniquely vulnerable. A governing philosophy based on reason, tolerance, and consensus cannot defend itself against a strategy of ruthless violence without being radically transformed--or destroyed.--From publisher description. |
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Preface ix
PART ONE
1 Fanaticism and the Myth of Modernity 3
2 The Denial of Fanaticism 15
3 Fanaticism and Resentment 29
4 The End of History? 39
5 Clash or Crash? 55
6 The Fanaticism of Reason 61
PART TWO
Reason, Fanaticism, and the
Struggle for Existence
7 Demystifying Reason 79
8 Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Reason 105
VII
viii Contents
part three
The Origins of Popular
Cultures of Reason
9 Condorcet s Tenth Stage 137
10 Reason and Autonomy 157
11 Liberal Exceptionalism 165
part four
The Challenge of Islamic Fanaticism
12 The Logic of Fanaticism 205
13 The Legacy and Future of Jihad 215
PART FIVE
14 Can Carpe Diem Societies Survive? 241
15 Our New World Disorder 253
Conclusion 265
Index 281
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Preface ix
PART ONE
1 Fanaticism and the Myth of Modernity 3
2 The Denial of Fanaticism 15
3 Fanaticism and Resentment 29
4 The End of History? 39
5 Clash or Crash? 55
6 The Fanaticism of Reason 61
PART TWO
Reason, Fanaticism, and the
Struggle for Existence
7 Demystifying Reason 79
8 Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Reason 105
VII
viii Contents
part three
The Origins of Popular
Cultures of Reason
9 Condorcet s Tenth Stage 137
10 Reason and Autonomy 157
11 Liberal Exceptionalism 165
part four
The Challenge of Islamic Fanaticism
12 The Logic of Fanaticism 205
13 The Legacy and Future of Jihad 215
PART FIVE
14 Can Carpe Diem Societies Survive? 241
15 Our New World Disorder 253
Conclusion 265
Index 281 |
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