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Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011)

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Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England on April 13, 1949. He was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and wrote for numerous other publications throughout his lifetime. He was the author of numerous books including No One Left to Lie To, For the Sake of Argument, Prepared for the visa mer Worst, God Is Not Great, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died due to complication from esophageal cancer on December 15, 2011 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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And Yet...: Essays (2015) 403 exemplar
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Can Atheism Save Europe (2010) 1 exemplar
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Inequalities in Zimbabwe (1981) 1 exemplar
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He uses lots of big words and presupposes more knowledge of the subject than I have. Lots of great info (read ammo) May have to reread to get more to stick.
 
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BBrookes | 197 andra recensioner | Nov 29, 2023 |
From Lucretius to Karl Marx to Richard Dawkins and many others, the case is being made
 
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betty_s | 26 andra recensioner | Nov 28, 2023 |
This book was so crap I forgot I'd even read it and then couldn't remember any of the arguments used. Turns out it's mostly just "religious people often do bad things" (woah, no kidding) with his usual condescension and racism. Awful.
 
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tombomp | 197 andra recensioner | Oct 31, 2023 |
È incredibile come nel XXI secolo ancora ci siano credenti che si aspettano che un ateo si converta sul punto di morte per paura dell’inferno o comunque dell’aldilà: è così difficile immaginare di ritenere che la morte sia la fine del nostro essere?

Eppure riesco a pensare a poche cose che tirino fuori la nostra umanità come vedere una persona che sta morendo, con le sue debolezze esposte, e provare compassione per tutto il male fatto e ricevuto, del tutto insensato visto il poco tempo che passiamo in vita, e per tutto il bene fatto e ricevuto, che rischia in gran parte di andare perduto; e poi finire per estendere quella compassione a noi stessə, fragili e umanə, proprio come chi sta morendo, raggiungendo una vicinanza con gli altri esseri umani che prescinde qualsiasi religione o differenza.

Hitchens avrebbe odiato questo discorso smielatissimo. Magari avrebbe detto che lui non voleva nessuna vicinanza con unə qualunque stronzə fondamentalista di una qualunque religione. Difficile dargli torto: i cancri, che siano tumori del corpo o ideologie autoritarie, non possono che suscitare il nostro ribrezzo, dato tutto il carico di sofferenza che portano con loro.

Sono in disaccordo con diverse posizioni di Hitchens (e la noncuranza con la quale parla di cure all’avanguardia in un Paese, gli USA, dove parecchia gente non può permettersi nemmeno quelle standard, è piuttosto raccapricciante), ma Mortalità è un libriccino da leggere per ricordarci che, nel bene e nel male, siamo soprattutto – se non soltanto – un corpo mortale.
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lasiepedimore | 73 andra recensioner | Sep 23, 2023 |

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