| Author/Contributor(s): | Robespierre, Maximilien; Zizek, Slavoj; Ducange, Jean; Howe, John |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Date: | 11/14/2017 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Robespierre’s defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written. It has an 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’s introduction analyzes these contradictions with a prodigious breadth of analogy and reference.