Virtue And Terror
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Virtue and Terror - Maximilien Robespierre, Jean Ducange, John Howe, Slavoj Zizek
Maximilien Robespierre, Jean Ducange, John Howe, Slavoj Zizek
| Author: | Slavoj Zizek |
| File type: | epub |
| Series: | Revolutions |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 178663337X,9781786633378 |
| Time Added: | Wed Feb 13 2019 14:08:49 GMT+0300 (MSK) |
| File type: | epub |
| Size: | 327 kb |
| City: | |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Id: | 2237569 |
| Time Modified: | Wed Feb 13 2019 14:08:49 GMT+0300 (MSK) |
| Extension: | epub |
| Bibtex: | "Maximilien Robespierre and Jean Ducange and John Howe and Slavoj Zizek", |
| "Virtue and Terror" |
<b>Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French Revolution</b>
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? iek's introduction analyzes these contradictions with a prodigious breadth of analogy and reference.