Letters to a Young Contrarian

Name: Letters to a Young Contrarian
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Christopher Hitchens
ISBN: 9781549189036

Author: Christopher Hitchens

Narrator: James Adams

Unabridged: 3 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 06/23/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Religion, Politics & State, Atheism, Political Science, Political Ideologies, American Government, Philosophy, Movements, Philosophy Criticism, Literary Collections, Agnosticism, Political Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Synopsis

From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement.“Hitchens is, first and last, a writer, an always exciting, often exacting, furious polemicist.” -The Boston Globe In Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young people of tomorrow. Exploring the entire range of “contrary positions”—from noble dissident to gratuitous nag—Hitchens introduces the next generation to the minds and the misfits who influenced him, invoking such mentors as Emile Zola, Rosa Parks, and George Orwell. As is his trademark, Hitchens pointedly pitches himself in contrast to stagnant attitudes across the ideological spectrum. No other writer has matched Hitchens’s understanding of the importance of disagreement—to personal integrity, to informed discussion, to true progress, to democracy itself.

About Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor in liberal studies at the New School in New York. His books include Why Orwell Matters, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, and God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jakob J. on May 13, 2024

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......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on December 16, 2022

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......more

Goodreads review by W.D. on February 06, 2023

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......more

Goodreads review by M. on August 20, 2014

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......more