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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.
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Virtue and terror, Maximilien de Robespierre, Slavoj Žižek, John Howe, Jean Ducange
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Virtue and terror
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 184467584x
- ISBN13
- 9781844675845
- Series
- Collection
- Revolutions
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Political Science & Politics, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Politics, France, French Revolution (1789-1799)
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
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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.