Features a collection of essays honouring Werner J Dannhauser. This book addresses the issue - of the rivalry between reason and religion, especially as both relate to politics. It includes essays by scholars such as Francis Fukuyama, Walter Berns, Jeremy Rabkin, and Ralph Lernerrange.

This collection of essays honoring Werner J. Dannhauser addresses the timeless issue_lately become very timely_of the rivalry between reason and religion, especially as both relate to politics. The essays_by such scholars as Francis Fukuyama, Walter Berns, Jeremy Rabkin, and Ralph Lerner_range widely over Western intellectual history, from classical philosophy and ancient Israel, to the medieval period and the Renaissance, to Nietzsche and contemporary neoconservative thought.