Virtue and Terror |
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| Authors: | Robespierre, Maximilien |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| BISAC/Subject: | HIS013000, POL010000, POL042040 |
| ISBN: | 9781786633392, Related ISBNs: 178663337X, 1786633396, 184467584X, 9781786633378, 9781786633392 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 208, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Robespierre’s defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written. It has an 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? Žižek’s introduction analyzes these contradictions with a prodigious breadth of analogy and reference.
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