Sinossi
Polemico e critico, intenso e ironico, Hitchens intesse una meditazione arguta su cosa significhi pensare, vivere, opporsi. Nelle sue 19 lettere immaginarie a uno studente, esplora l'intera gamma di posizioni contrarie, dalla dissidenza all'anticonformismo, dal radicalismo alla ribellione, introducendo le nuove generazioni alle figure che lo hanno ispirato. Senza tempo e nel tempo, questo "minimanifesto" che eleva il dissenso a strumento del progresso e della democrazia raccoglie tutte le pulsioni di un autentico ribelle.
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- Pagine: 116
- Data di uscita: 22-04-2008
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Death hath wrought a pernicious dent in the erudite and intellectual world; Hitchens will not be one to be soon forgotten, nor ever replaced (but emulated, definitely). Let me stop you before you roll your eyes. Yes, I am providing my belated, unasked-for, and pedantic tribute to the late Hitch, but Leggi tutto
Herein, Hitchens composes a series of 'letters' to those of us who would seek his advice and counsel. Inspired by his students in New York, and by hundreds of others on campuses where he spoke and lectured, Letters to a Young Contrarian reads like a commencement address to a graduating class at Berk Leggi tutto
This marks my mostly-successful re-entry into the Hitch's orbit. Never a mooning Fanboi, I acknowledged a certain erratic genius in his collection of essays Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere , thought that Why Orwell Matters certainly mattered, but found God Is Not Great: How R Leggi tutto
Through the years reading Christopher Hitchens has been hit or miss for me. Mortality was amazing, but many other works basically unaccessible to me perhaps because they are all too cerebral and the subjects fail to interest me. I remember Hitchens on a Bill Maher show on HBO where he was a guest an Leggi tutto
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