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Letters to a Young Contrarian
ISBN: 9780465030323
出版社: Basic Books
出版年: 2001-10
定价: USD 23.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
A witty, wise, biting, and completely individual meditation on what it means to think, live, and be to the contrary.
"Art of Mentoring" series
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways.
This book explores the entire range of "contrary positions"-from noble dissident to gratuitous pain in the butt. In an age of overly polite debate bending over backward to reach a happy consensus within an increasingly centrist political dialogue, Hitchens pointedly pitches himself in contrast.
He bemoans the loss of the skills of dialectical thinking evident in contemporary society. He understands the importance of disagreement-to personal integrity, to informed discussion, to true progress-heck, to democracy itself. Epigrammatic, spunky, witty, in your face, timeless and timely, this book is everything you would expect from a mentoring contrarian.
作者简介
介绍克里斯托弗·希钦斯，大概有这么几种方式，比如说，他是美国最有名的专栏作者、记者、政治评论员之一，或者，他是英语世界最好的随笔作家、媒体评论家之一，或者，在中国，我们可以说，他是《致一位“愤青”的信》（这本书为何会在中国翻译出版，对我来说始终是个谜）的作者，又或者，对那些已经多少对他有点了解的人来说，他是公开的烟鬼，疑似的酒鬼，上电视出风头的坚定无神论者，在《名利场》杂志上分期连载展现自己被时尚包装后的样子的自大狂，从左派到右派的变节者，布什政府伊拉克政策的死忠分子。
