Virtue and Terror

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Virtue and Terror
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jean Ducange
By (author) Maximilien Robespierre
Introduction by Slavoj Zizek
Translated by John Howe
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9781786633378
ClassificationsDewey:944.04092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Verso Books
Imprint Verso Books
Publication Date 26 September 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Maximilien Robespierre is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.