| Virtue and Terror Contributor(s): Robespierre, Maximilien (Author), Zizek, Slavoj (Introduction by), Ducange, Jean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 178663337X ISBN-13: 9781786633378 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - History | Europe - France |
| Dewey: 944.040 |
| LCCN: 2017025009 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.48 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French Revolution 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. |