Virtue and Terror: (Revolutions)
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Jean Ducange (Contributor) Maximilien Robespierre (Author) Slavoj Zizek (Contributor) John Howe (Contributor)
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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.
About the Author
Maximilien Robespierre is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.
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- Contributor: Jean Ducange
- Imprint: Verso Books
- ISBN13: 9781844675845
- Number of Pages: 208
- Packaged Dimensions: 130x198x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 212
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Release Date: 2007-01-17
- Series: Revolutions
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Maximilien Robespierre is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.
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