Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
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A celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretz’s ‘bloody crossroads’. Instead Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.
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Christopher Hitchins it is a Melancholy lesson of older life that you can no longer Make Old Friends like find your people now find your
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"Christopher Hitchens is mentioned by name, and a quote about the "Melancholy lesson of older life" regarding making old friends is attributed to him. While the quote itself isn't directly about religion, Hitchens is primarily known for his outspoken atheism and critiques of religion, making this his most relevant and famous book."
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