Unhitched
The Trial of Christopher Hitchens
Published on 16. January 2013
160 pages
978-1-78168-461-0 (ISBN)
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Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of America's invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line as well as received wisdom. But how much of this was imposture? In this highly critical study, Richard Seymour casts a cold eye over the career of the "Hitch" to uncover an intellectual trajectory determined by expediency and a fetish for power.
As an orator and writer, Hitchens offered something unique and highly marketable. But for all his professed individualism, he remains a recognizable historical type-the apostate leftist. Unhitched presents a rewarding and entertaining case study, one that is also a cautionary tale for our times.
As an orator and writer, Hitchens offered something unique and highly marketable. But for all his professed individualism, he remains a recognizable historical type-the apostate leftist. Unhitched presents a rewarding and entertaining case study, one that is also a cautionary tale for our times.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-461-0 (9781781684610)
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Richard Seymour is a writer, broadcaster and socialist, currently based in London. He writes regularly for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Jacobin and many other publications.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: Predictable as Hell
- 1 Christopher Hitchens in Theory and Practice
- 2 English Questions, from Orwell to Thatcher
- 3 Guilty as Sin: Theophobia, from Rushdie to the War on Terror
- 4 The Englishman Abroad and the Road to Empire
- Conclusion: Twenty-Twenty Blindfold
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- About the Author
- Copyright
