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=====Book Description=====[[Image:Robespierre.jpg|300px|right]]'''s defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever writtenIn this dazzling new series, [[philosopher]] and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents[[cultural]] critic Slavoj [[Zizek]] interrogates key writings on [[revolution]]. 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.''

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. "''If the spring of popular [[government ]] in [[time ]] of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless''."—Robespierre =====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| Robespierre, Maximilien and [[Slavoj Zizek]] (Introduction). '''''[[Virtue and Terror (Revolution!)]]'''''. Verso. January 22, 2007, Paperback, 160 pages, Language [[English]], ISBN: 184467584X. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/184467584X/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/184467584X/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/184467584X/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/184467584X/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/184467584X/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>|} {{CBBSZ}}