All Posts Tagged With: "Christopher Hitchens"

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Book Review: Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Max Elliot Katz STUDY THE STALLS OF A SEMINARY BATHROOM and chances are you will find the following scrawled out in ballpoint: “Nietzsche: God is Dead. God: Nietzsche is dead.” The quip relies on a misreading—God, for Nietzsche, did not die like your grandmother or pet turtle might die. [...]

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June 10th, 2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Going it Alone: Christopher Hitchens and the death of the Left

Book Review: Cottee, Simon and Thomas Cushman (eds.). Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left. New York: New York University Press, 2008. Spencer A. Leonard If it did not come to end in 1989, as conservative critic Francis Fukuyama expected, this is because, in Hegel’s sense, as freedom’s self-realization in time, History [...]

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March 15th, 2009 | Platypus Review editor | 6 comments | Continued
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Afghanistan, internationalism and the Left: an interview with Terry Glavin

Andony Melathopoulos The following interview was conducted as an email exchange between Andony Melathopoulos and Terry Glavin in December 2008. Terry Glavin is a Canadian journalist, an outspoken critic of the anti-war movement’s call to withdrawal foreign troops from Afghanistan and a founder of the Afghanistan Canada Solidarity Committee (afghanistan-canada-solidarity.org). Andony Melathopoulos: You just returned [...]

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February 1st, 2009 | Platypus Review editor | 2 comments | Continued