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Virtue and Terror (Revolutions) | 
| Author: Maximilien Robespierre
Creator: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 352219
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 184467584X
Dewey Decimal Number: 944.04092
EAN: 9781844675845
ASIN: 184467584X
Publication Date: January 22, 2007
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Product Description
In this dazzling new series, philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek interrogates key writings on revolution.
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, marshalling 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
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