| Virtue and Terror Contributor(s): Robespierre, Maximilien (Author), Ducange, Jean (Editor), Howe, John (Translator) |
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ISBN: 184467584X ISBN-13: 9781844675845 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: In this dazzling new series, philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek interrogates key writings on revolution. 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. ""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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | Europe - France |
| Dewey: 944.040 |
| Series: Revolutions |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.02" W x 7.82" (0.49 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? Žižek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous. |