A01=Ben Burgis
atheist
Author_Ben Burgis
Ben Burgis
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Christopher Hitchens
early Hitchens
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Left politics
Left wing
Left wing politics
left-wing perspective
left-wing polemicist
new athiest
politics
pre-911 politics
radicalized leftists
The Left
turn to the right
Product details
- ISBN 9781789047455
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
