Tugend und Terror

Author/Contributor(s):	Robespierre, Maximilien; Ducange, Jean; Howe, John; Zizek, Slavoj
Publisher:	Verso
Date:	1/17/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.