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How Hitchens Can Save the Left - Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment (Paperback)
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How Hitchens Can Save the Left - Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Christopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the
fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But
on much of today’s left, he’s remembered as a defector, a
warmonger, and a sellout—a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq who traded his left-wing principles for neoconservatism
after the September 11 attacks. In How Hitchens Can Save the Left,
Matt Johnson argues that this easy narrative gets Hitchens exactly
wrong. Hitchens was a lifelong champion of free inquiry, humanism,
and universal liberal values. He was an internationalist who
believed all people should have the liberty to speak and write
openly, to be free of authoritarian domination, and to escape the
arbitrary constraints of tribe, faith, and nation. He was a figure
of the Enlightenment and a man of the left until the very end, and
his example has never been more important. Over the past several
years, the liberal foundations of democratic societies have been
showing signs of structural decay. On the right, nationalism and
authoritarianism have been revived on both sides of the Atlantic.
On the left, many activists and intellectuals have become obsessed
with a reductive and censorious brand of identity politics, as well
as the conviction that their own liberal democratic societies are
institutionally racist, exploitative, and imperialistic. Across the
democratic world, free speech, individual rights, and other basic
liberal values are losing their power to inspire. Hitchens’s case
for universal Enlightenment principles won’t just help genuine
liberals mount a resistance to the emerging illiberal orthodoxies
on the left and the right. It will also remind us how to think and
speak fearlessly in defense of those principles.
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Imprint: |
Pitchstone Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Matt Johnson
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-63431-234-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-63431-234-1 |
Barcode: |
9781634312349 |
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