Christopher Hitchens

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

Ben Burgis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2021
Top Hat Books (Verlag)
978-1-78904-745-5 (ISBN)

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

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 Hitchen's complicated legacy.

Ben Burgis is philosophy instructor at Georgia State University Perimeter College, a columnist for Jacobin Magazine and Arc Digital Media, and the co-host of the Dead Pundits Society. He also does a regular segment on The Michael Brooks Show called "the Debunk." He lives in Norcross, Georgia.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-78904-745-5 / 1789047455
ISBN-13	978-1-78904-745-5 / 9781789047455
Zustand	Neuware