Christopher Hitchens (eBook)

What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters

Ben Burgis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
160 Seiten
John Hunt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78904-746-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Ten years after the death of Christopher Hitchens, it's time for the left to take another look at his complicated legacy.

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While his post-9/11 turn to the right has defined Christopher Hitchens for the last two decades, we may now be in a position to rehabilitate his long pre-9/11 career as a left-wing polemicist. Burgis reminds readers about what was best in Hitchens's writings and helps us gain a better understanding of how someone whose whole political life was animated by the values of the socialist left could have ended up holding grotesque positions on Iraq and the War on Terror. Burgis' book makes a case for the enduring importance of engaging with Hitchens' complicated legacy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: The Left, Left wing, Left wing politics, politics, Left politics, Christopher Hitchens, Ben Burgis, turn to the right, pre-9/11 politics, left-wing polemicist, atheist, new athiest, early Hitchens, radicalized leftists, left-wing perspective,
• ISBN-10: 1-78904-746-3 / 1789047463
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78904-746-2 / 9781789047462