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Virtue and Terror (Revolutions)

Paperback • 2007 • English

Virtue and Terror (Revolutions)

By Maximilien Robespierre

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About the book

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 take...Show more

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ISBN

9781844675845

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Virtue and Terror (Revolutions)

Format

Paperback

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