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Virtue and Terror (Revolutions)

Virtue and Terror (Revolutions)

by Maximilien Robespierre (Author), Maximilien Robespierre (Author), John Howe (Translator), Slavoj Žižek (Introduction)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 208
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Verso
Published: 26 Sep 2017
ISBN 10: 178663337X
ISBN 13: 9781786633378
Book Overview: Classic revolutionary writings set ablaze by today's radical writers. This essential series features classic texts by key figures who took centre stage during a period of insurrection. Each book is introduced by a major contemporary radical writer who shows how these incendiary words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions. The first three in the series are introduced by the famed Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek.

Author Bio
Maximilien Robespierre is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.