Christopher Hitchens fue un polemista e intelectual cuya escritura se caracterizó por un análisis incisivo y un estilo intransigente. Si bien inicialmente se alineó con la izquierda radical, sus puntos de vista evolucionaron con el tiempo, lo que llevó a cambios notables en sus posturas políticas. Defendió los valores de la Ilustración como el secularismo, el humanismo y la razón, al tiempo que criticó ferozmente los dogmas religiosos y las figuras políticas que consideraba dañinas. Su producción literaria sigue siendo celebrada por su rigor intelectual y su examen audaz de las verdades establecidas.
This collection of essays spans Christopher Hitchens' career, showcasing his insights on politics, literature, and religion. Divided into sections like 'All American' and 'Foreign Quarrels', it reflects his defiance, wit, and mastery of short-form journalism, establishing him as a significant voice in contemporary discourse.
'Vanity Fair Portraits' traces the cultural history of the 20th century and its leading personalities in the pages of a magazine that helped usher in the modern age and which has itself become a benchmark of modern achievement.
Christopher Hitchens is widely recognised as having been one of the liveliest and most influential of contemporary political analysts. 'Prepared for the Worst' is a collection of the best of his essays of the 1980s published on both sides of the Atlantic.
Many see the encounter between literature & politics as fraught. This text offers a different approach, showing that whilst the engagement between writers & those in power isn't always smooth, it generally embodies a dialectic worth investigation.
The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture. First published in the early 90s, the writings in 'For the Sake of Argument' range from the political squalor of Washington to the twilight of Stalinism in Prague, from the Jewish quarter of Damascus in the aftermath of the Gulf War to the embattled barrios of Central America.
Essayist Christopher Hitchens ruminates on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men, the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard, the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell, the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad, the enduring relevance of Karl Marx, and how politics justifies itself by culture--and how the latter prompts the former.
The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. In this fashion, Arguably burnishes Christopher Hitchens' credentials as (to quote Christopher Buckley) our "greatest living essayist in the English language."
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide. In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political. This is the story of his life, lived large.
