Christopher Hitchens Book order

Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.

Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.

An outstanding collection of some of the best pieces that Christopher Hitchens wrote for the London Review of Books.

Known as the "four horsemen" of the New Atheism, four thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their examination of ideas was wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights about religion and atheism, science and sense speaks to our present age. The dialogue was recorded, and is transcribed and presented in this book

This selection of interviews showcases the remarkable career of one of this generation’s greatest and most divisive thinkers—featuring a foreword by Stephen Fry. “ . . . pulls together some of Hitchens’s greatest dialogues, each sparkling with intelligence and wit.” —New York Times Book Review If someone says I’m doing this out of faith, I say, Why don’t you do it out of conviction? One of his generation’s greatest public intellectuals, and perhaps its fiercest, Christopher Hitchens was a brilliant interview subject. This collection—which spans from his early prominence as a hero of the Left to his controversial support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan toward the end of his life—showcases Hitch’s trademark wit on subjects as diverse as his mistrust of the media, his love of literature, his dislike of the Clintons, and his condemnation of all things religious. Beginning with an introduction and tribute from his longtime friend Stephen Fry, this collection culminates in Hitchens’s fearless final interview with Richard Dawkins, which shows a man as unafraid of death as he was of everything in life.

"Słynny esej kontrowersyjnego intelektualisty. Odwołując się do przykładów z własnego życia oraz postaw takich ważnych dla niego osób, jak Emile Zola, Rosa Parks, George Orwell czy Vaclav Havel, autor analizuje różne formy sprzeciwu i kontestacji. Opowiada o tym, jak być krytycznym, nie ulegać manipulacji mediów, nie poddawać się politycznej propagandzie i zachowywać twórczy dystans wobec rzeczywistości. Na co dzień możesz stanąć wobec różnych odmian przemocy albo hipokryzji, bałamutnego powoływania się na wolę ogółu albo małostkowych nadużyć władzy. Jeśli należysz do jakiejś organizacji politycznej, ktoś może cię poprosić o mówienie kłamstw albo półprawd służących jakiemuś krótkoterminowemu celowi. Każdy wypracowuje sobie własne sposoby radzenia sobie z takimi sytuacjami. Staraj się zachowywać, „jak gdyby” nie trzeba było ich tolerować i jakby nie było w nich nic oczywistego – pisze Hitchens do młodego adepta sztuki sprzeciwu."

· kolejna książka z serii 'Książki, które wstrząsnęły światem' · Thomas Paine (1737-1809) urodził się w Anglii, lecz musiał z niej uciekać, poszukiwany przez tajną policję króla Jerzego III, której nie podobało się to, jak wielki miał posłuch wśród spragnionego wolności i demokracji ludu · rozpalał umysły walczących o niepodległość Ameryki i wchodził w konflikty z powodu wolnomyślicielskiego podejścia do religii Fascynująca biografia dzieła Paine'a, niepokornego i błyskotliwego humanisty, orędownika wolności i demokracji. Jego Prawa człowieka na zawsze odmieniły sposób tworzenia prozy politycznej i wywarły trwały wpływ na myśl liberalną i socjaldemokratyczną.

"This collection of essays brings together some of the finest pieces Hitchens published over the last two decades for the first time in one book, addressing with characteristic wit and erudition the subjects he is best known for, including: the case against God, faith and religious observance; the case for intervention in Iraq; indictments of towering political figures like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, and Henry Kissinger; and celebrations of the writers and thinkers whose work meant most to him"--

Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.

@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } "All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles of reason and tolerance and skepticism that define and inform the foundations of our civilization-principles that, to endure, must be defended anew by every generation. "A short list of the greatest living conversationalists in English," said The Economist, "would probably have to include Christopher Hitchens, Sir Patrick Leigh-Fermor, and Sir Tom Stoppard. Great brilliance, fantastic powers of recall, and quick wit are clearly valuable in sustaining conversation at these cosmic levels. Charm may be helpful, too." Hitchens-who staunchly declines all offers of knighthood-hereby invites you to take a seat at a democratic conversation, to be engaged, and to be reasoned with. His knowledge is formidable, an encyclopedic treasure, and yet one has the feeling, reading him, of hearing a person thinking out loud, following the inexorable logic of his thought, wherever it might lead, unafraid to expose fraudulence, denounce injustice, and excoriate hypocrisy. Legions of readers, admirers and detractors alike, have learned to read Hitchens with something approaching awe at his felicity of language, the oxygen in every sentence, the enviable wit and his readiness, even eagerness, to fight a foe or mount the ramparts. Here, he supplies fresh perceptions of such figures as varied as Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Rebecca West, George Orwell, J.G. Ballard, and Philip Larkin are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions and intrepid observations, gathered from a lifetime of traveling and reporting from such destinations as Iran, China, and Pakistan. Hitchens's directness, elegance, lightly carried erudition, critical and psychological insight, humor, and sympathy-applied as they are here to a dazzling variety of subjects-all set a standard for the essayist that has rarely been matched in our time. What emerges from this indispensable volume is an intellectual self-portrait of a writer with an exemplary steadiness of purpose and a love affair with the delights and seductions of the English language, a man anchored in a profound and humane vision of the human longing for reason and justice.