Mortality pdf

他是英裔美国作家、专栏作家、散文家、演说家、文学和宗教评论家、社会评论家和记者。希钦斯是 30 多本书的作者、合著者、编辑或合编者，其中包括五本政治、文化和文学论文集。他的论战言论使他成为公共话语的中心话题，使他成为一个知识分子和有争议的人物。投稿于《新政治家》、《国家》、《标准周刊》、《大西洋》、《伦敦书评》、《泰晤士报》文学增刊、《石板》、《自由查询》和《名利场》。他将自己描述为民主社会主义者、马克思主义者和反极权主义者，在将其描述为西方左翼对《撒旦诗篇》辩论的“冷淡反应”之后，他与政治左翼决裂，随后左翼拥抱了比尔·克林顿和1990 年代波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的反北约战争运动。上个世纪。他对伊拉克战争的支持使他更加分裂。他的著作包括对比尔·克林顿、亨利·基辛格、特蕾莎修女和威尔士王妃戴安娜等公众人物的批评。他是保守派记者和作家彼得·希钦斯的哥哥。他还呼吁政教分离。作为神性的批评者，他将神或更高权力的概念视为限制个人自由的普遍主义信仰。他提倡言论自由和科学发现，并认为它胜过宗教，成为人类文明的道德行为准则。他的名言“没有证据可以肯定的东西可以在没有证据的情况下被否定”被称为希钦斯密码。

Mortality pdf 克里斯托弗·希钦斯

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis.
Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. By turns personal and philosophical, Hitchens embraces the full panoply of human emotions as cancer invades his body and compels him to grapple with the enigma of death.
MORTALITY is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.