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Virtue and Terror

Robespierre, Maximilien Ducange, Jean
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844675845
Publisert
2007-01-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
212 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Redaktør
Ducange, Jean
Forfatter
Robespierre, Maximilien
Introduksjon ved
Zizek, Slavoj
Oversetter
Howe, John

Om bidragsyterne

Maximilien Robespierre is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.

Virtue and Terror

Robespierre, Maximilien Ducange, Jean
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Robespierre, Maximilien Ducange, Jean
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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"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"

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, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.
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Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution is one of the powerful justifications for political violence. Yet, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation built on the principles of enlightenment. This title looks at these contradictions.
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Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French Revolution

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"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"

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, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.
Les mer
Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution is one of the powerful justifications for political violence. Yet, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation built on the principles of enlightenment. This title looks at these contradictions.
Les mer
Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French Revolution

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844675845
Publisert
2007-01-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
212 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Redaktør
Ducange, Jean
Forfatter
Robespierre, Maximilien
Introduksjon ved
Zizek, Slavoj
Oversetter
Howe, John

Om bidragsyterne

Maximilien Robespierre is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.

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