Virtue and Terror by Jean Ducange
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.
"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"
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844675845 |
| ISBN 10 | 184467584X |
| Title | Virtue and Terror |
| Author | Jean Ducange |
| Series | Revolutions |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2007-01-17 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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