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- Giving the Devil His Due
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
- Chapter 23 Transcendent Man
- Chapter 24 The Real Hitch
- Chapter 25 The Skeptic’s Chaplain
- Chapter 26 Have Archetype – Will Travel
- Chapter 27 Romancing the Past
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 24 - The Real Hitch
Did Christopher Hitchens Really Keep Two Sets of Books About His Beliefs?
from Part V - Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
- Chapter 23 Transcendent Man
- Chapter 24 The Real Hitch
- Chapter 25 The Skeptic’s Chaplain
- Chapter 26 Have Archetype – Will Travel
- Chapter 27 Romancing the Past
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Two events led to two essays related to Christopher Hitchens stitched into one here : (1) a book published after his death claiming that Hitch kept “two sets of books” about his religious beliefs – his public set as an atheist and his private set flirting with believing in God and religious faith; (2) Hitch’s death on December 15, 2011. My motives for each are self-evident within. so let me add parenthetically here that eight years on after he left us, Hitch’s voice is needed now more than ever. He was such a penetrating thinker on the deepest questions of our time. We live in troubled times; then again, Hitch lived in troubled times, and his stabilizing voice of reason and rationality gave us a deeper understanding of what was going on in our world, and lacking that intellectual foundation on which to rest our anxious souls only adds to the grief those of us who knew him already feel.
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- Giving the Devil his DueReflections of a Scientific Humanist, pp. 276 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020