Cover of Maximilien Robespierre, Slavoj Zizek (INT): Virtue And Terror

Maximilien Robespierre, Slavoj Zizek (INT) Virtue And Terror

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W W Norton & Co Inc

USA

2007

Paperback

154

Standard

220924

978-1-84467-584-5

1-84467-584-X

Political violence; France; History; 18th century.

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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, marshalling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.

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