Virtue & Terror Pa
, by Robespierre,MaximilienNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781844675845 | 184467584X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/17/2007
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.