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    This French lawyer and politician emerged as one of the most prominent and influential figures of the French Revolution. He was a skilled articulator of the beliefs of the left-wing bourgeoisie, advocating against the death penalty and for the abolition of slavery, while championing equality of rights and universal suffrage. Supporters lauded him as 'The Incorruptible,' while adversaries condemned him as a 'bloodthirsty dictator.' He played a pivotal role during the period of the Reign of Terror, an era that concluded shortly after his own arrest and execution.

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    Virtue and terror

    • Virtue and terror

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      4.1(348)Add rating

      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.

      Virtue and terror