Virtue and Terror

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? Žižek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 01/17/2007
ISBN: 9781844675845
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.02w x 0.61d