Subtitle: Maximilien Robespierre
Author: Robespierre, Maximilien & Slavoj Zizek
Year: 2007
ISBN: 9781844675845
Pages: 154
Language: English
Publisher: Verso
Publisher's city: London
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Virtue and terror
€13.95
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.