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Virtue and Terror

Virtue and Terror

Paperback

Series: Revolutions

French HistoryGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 184467584X
ISBN13: 9781844675845
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jan 17 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.02 Depth: 7.82
Language: English
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.

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