Virtue and Terror
Maximilien Robespierre author John Howe translator Slavoj Žižek editor Jean Ducange editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Published:26th Sep '17
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Robespierre's defense of the Terror in the French Revolution
Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents. Yet today, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation built on the principles of Enlightenment. So how should a contemporary audience approach Robespierre's vindication of revolutionary terror? Zizek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.
ISBN: 9781786633378
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: 229g
208 pages