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Virtue and Terror

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 208
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781844675845
  • Genres
  • history, politics, philosophy, france, theory, classics
  • Release date
  • 2007