Virtue and Terror Robespierre Maximilien
Virtue and Terror Robespierre Maximilien Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French RevolutionRobespierre's defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and…
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Virtue and Terror Robespierre Maximilien
Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French RevolutionRobespierre's defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written. Yet today the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation built on the principles of Enlightenment. It has an extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents.
Žižek's introduction analyzes these contradictions with a prodigious breadth of analogy and So how should a contemporary audience approach Robespierre's vindication of revolutionary terror?