Virtue and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre (Revolutions)

by Maximilien Robespierre and Slavoj Zizek

Jean Ducange (Editor), John Howe (Translator), and Slavoj Zizek (Introduction)

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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? Žižek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.
  • ISBN10 184467584X
  • ISBN13 9781844675845
  • Publish Date 17 January 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Verso