Christopher Hitchens

**Christopher Eric Hitchens** (lahir 13 April 1949 di Portsmouth, Hampshire, Inggris; meninggal 15 Desember 2011 di Houston, Texas, Amerika Serikat) adalah seorang pengarang dan jurnalis Inggris-Amerika. Ia pernah menjadi kolumnis dan kritikus sastra di majalah *[[The Atlantic]]*, *[[Majalah Vanity Fair|Vanity Fair]]*, *[[Slate (majalah)|Slate]]*, *[[World Affairs (jurnal)|World Affairs]]*, *[[The Nation]]*, *[[Free Inquiry]]*, dan menjadi anggota media di Hoover Institution pada September 2008. Hitchens sering kali hadir dalam acara televisi dan seminar. Pada tahun 2005, berdasarkan pemilihan di majalah *[[majalah Prospect|Prospect]]*/*[[majalah Foreign Policy|Foreign Policy]]*, ia dinobatkan sebagai intelektual umum kelima dunia.

Hitchens adalah seorang antiteis. Ia berpendapat bahwa konsep Tuhan merupakan kepercayaan totalitarian yang menghancurkan kebebasan seseorang. Hitchens menulis mengenai ateisme dan kritiknya terhadap agama dalam bukunya yang berjudul *[[God Is Not Great]]*.
Pada tanggal 15 Desember 2011, Christopher Hitchens meninggal di *MD Anderson Cancer Center* di Houston, Texas. Penyebab kematiannya adalah radang paru akibat komplikasi kanker yang dideritanya.

## Bibliografi

* 1987 *Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles*, Chatto and Windus (UK)/Hill and Wang (US, 1988); 1997 UK Verso edition as *The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece?* (with essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns)
* 1988 *[[Blaming the Victims|Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question]]* (contributor; co-editor with Edward Said) Verso, ISBN 0-86091-887-4 Reissued, 2001
* 1990 "The Monarchy", Chatto & Windus Ltd
* 1995 *[[The Missionary Position (book)|The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice]]*, Verso
* 1999 *[[No One Left to Lie To]]*, Verso
* 2000 *[[Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere]]*, Verso
* 2001 *[[The Trial of Henry Kissinger]]*. Verso.
* 2001 *[[Letters to a Young Contrarian]]*, Basic Books
* 2002 Why Orwell Matters also Orwell's Victory, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-03050-5
* 2004 *[[Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays]]*, Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books, ISBN 1-56025-580-3
* 2005 *[[Thomas Jefferson: Author of America]]*, Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-06-059896-4
* 2007 *[[The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer]]*, [Editor] Perseus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-306-81608-6
* 2007 *[[God Is Not Great|God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything]]*, Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA/Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-57980-7 / Published in the UK as *God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion*, Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-84354-586-6
* 2008 *[[Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left]]* (with Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman), New York University Press
* 2008 *[[Is Christianity Good for the World?|Is Christianity Good for the World?&nbsp;– A Debate]]* (co-author, with Douglas Wilson), Canon Press, ISBN 1-59128-053-2
* 2010 *[[Hitch-22: A Memoir]]*, Hachette Book Group, ISBN 978-0-446-54033-9
* 2011 *Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens*, Twelve. UK edition as *Arguably: Selected Prose*, Atlantic, 1-4555-0277-4 / 978-1-4555-0277-6

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