Virtue and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre
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Virtue and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre

Virtue and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre (Author) Slavoj Zizek (Author)  

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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, marshalling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is also visiting professor at the United States universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of Michigan).
  • Contributor: Maximilien Robespierre
  • Imprint: Verso Books
  • ISBN13: 9781844675845
  • Number of Pages: 208
  • Packaged Dimensions: 140x191mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Release Date: 2007-01-29
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is also visiting professor at the United States universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of Michigan).

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