Virtue and Terror by Robespierre, Maximilien

Virtue and Terror (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786633378)

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Virtue and Terror by Robespierre, Maximilien

Virtue and Terror

$19.95
Virtue and Terror by Robespierre, Maximilien

Virtue and Terror

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Maximilien Robespierre
ISBN-10: 178663337X
ISBN-13: 9781786633378
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2017
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d
By Maximilien Robespierre
By Maximilien Robespierre
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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 Žižek 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 Žižek, and many more.

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