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Virtue and Terror
Maximilien Robespierre
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Description for Virtue and Terror
Paperback. Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution is one of the powerful justifications for political violence. Yet, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation built on the principles of enlightenment. This title looks at these contradictions. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBTV; HPS; JPWQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
214g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844675845
SKU
V9781844675845
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About Maximilien Robespierre
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.
Reviews for Virtue and Terror
"If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal: terror, without which virtue is powerless." - Robespierre"