

Virtue and Terror
by Maximilien Robespierre
Edited by Jean Ducange
Translated by John Howe
Introduction by Slavoj Žižek
Part of the Revolutions series
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208 pages / November 2017 / 9781786633378
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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.
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