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In the collection of essays that title this post there is an essay number 13 by Dermot Moran : The Destruction Of The Destruction : Heidegger's Version of the History of Philosophy. In this fascinating piece Mr. Moran, in the first few pages, discusses two works, one by Ghazali ,Tahafut al-falasifi (Inchoherence of Philosophy) and one by Averroes, Tahafut al-tahafut( Incoherence of Incoherence). Mr. Moran's essay is one I have read many times and now, to my delight and pleasure, the above web address makes available the text by Ghazali and the commentary by Averroes: arranged by comment( in red text) and reply (in black text).   

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/385761#We have graduated from ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ as argued by Mr. Huntington in his bloated article in Foreign Affairs- we can argue that that was just a transitional phase of American Imperial rationalization, that now clarifies itself  with the introduction of a New Cold War with China, as argued, here, by Mr. Boot. It is a heady moment, a moment for Mr. Boot’s masters to profit not only from the War on Terror,with is ever shifting fronts of battle, but, now, the permanent enemy can and will be established, in the public mind, as implacable and with a location in time and space, that can be exploited as the’ New Yellow Peril’, nearly sanitized of its racial component, and expressed as the New Giant of Economic and Military might devouring, swallowing everything in its path. A macrophage made to order to inspire fear and its concomitant political hysteria. Mr. Boot’s imperative is don’t cut defense spending, cut entitlements, the endless theme of a bankrupt Conservatism in the thrall of plutocrats and kleptocrats. Who wish to bury the last remnants of the New Deal and march off to endless war, while celebrating the utter destruction of the middle class.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010503855.html 

George F. Will is one of the most prominent of America’s Fake Political Moralists. He demonstrates his talent for sermonizing about the Moral Decline of America in his latest column titled:’ Given up your New Year’s resolutions? It’s the American way’, garnished at the outset with an apt quotation from Philip Larkin. Mr. Will takes his starting point from a book by Daniel Akst titled, ‘We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess’. This can be summed up as the rise of the Consumer Culture and the Moral/Ethical disentanglement of the citizenry from itself and its civic obligations: evolving from mass production and the imperatives of Capitalist Markets, which is just mentioned, but not as the engine of the excesses of Consumer Culture. The guided tour of America’s moral decline is unrivalled in its complete superficiality and totally self-serving nature. Mr. Will turns this into an opportunity for one of his moralizing sermons, in the tradition of the Mather’s , Billy Sunday and the once ubiquitous Billy Graham. Mr. Will is most intellectually comfortable pointing his finger in reproach at his fellow citizens: perhaps, a function of his adoption, of a convenient Neo-Burkian personae, that allows him to look down on his fellow sinners, his fellow citizens, as less than he. Mr. Will is adroit at letting Mr. Akst do the talking by use of select and plangent quotation as to the decadent nature of the present day American Values. Americans are fat, lazy and morally and politically lost, even beyond redemption, although Mr. Will offers himself as our guide, our moral and political Captain on troubled seas.