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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.

Virtue and Terror

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A Paperback / softback by Jean Ducange, Maximilien Robespierre, Slavoj Zizek

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    Publisher: Verso Books
    Publication Date: 26/09/2017
    ISBN13: 9781786633378, 978-1786633378
    ISBN10: 178663337X
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    Non Fiction History Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions Politics, Philosophy & Society Terrorism, armed struggle

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    Book Synopsis
    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.

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