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.
| ISBN: | 9781844675845 |
| Publication date: | 29th January 2007 |
| Author: | Maximilien Robespierre, Jean Ducange, John Howe, Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 154 pages |
| Series: | Revolutions |
| Genres: |
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions Terrorism, armed struggle |