Christopher Hitchens and His Critics Cottee Simon
Christopher Hitchens and His Critics Cottee Simon A provocative volume of the controversial radical thinkerChristopher Hitchens--political journalist, cultural critic, public intellectual and…
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Christopher Hitchens and His Critics Cottee Simon
A provocative volume of the controversial radical thinkerChristopher Hitchens--political journalist, cultural critic, public intellectual and self-described contrarian--is one of the most controversial and prolific writers of his generation. Like his hero, George Orwell, Hitchens is a tireless opponent of all forms of cruelty, ideological dogma, religious superstition and intellectual obfuscation. His most recent book, God Is Not Great, was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2007 for months.
As a thinker, Hitchens is perhaps best viewed as post-ideological, in that his intellectual sources and solidarities are strikingly various (he is an admirer of both Leon Trotsky and Kingsley Amis) and cannot be located easily at any one point on the ideological spectrum. Once a socialist, he now refers to himself as an unaffiliated radical. Since leaving Britain for the United
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