Virtue And Terror

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Virtue and Terror - Maximilien Robespierre, Jean Ducange, John Howe, Slavoj Zizek
Maximilien Robespierre, Jean Ducange, John Howe, Slavoj Zizek
Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: epub
Series: Revolutions
Publisher: Verso
Year: 2017
Language: English
ISBN: 178663337X,9781786633378
Time Added: Wed Feb 13 2019 14:08:49 GMT+0300 (MSK)
File type: epub
Size: 327 kb
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Pages: 208
Id: 2237569
Time Modified: Wed Feb 13 2019 14:08:49 GMT+0300 (MSK)
Extension: epub
Bibtex: "Maximilien Robespierre and Jean Ducange and John Howe and Slavoj Zizek",
"Virtue and Terror"
<b>Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French Revolution</b>

Robespierre's defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written. It has an 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's introduction analyzes these contradictions with a prodigious breadth of analogy and reference.