Virtue and terror
- ISBN: 9781844675845
- Editorial: Verso Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: New York. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Revolutions
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 20 cm
- Nº Pág.: 154
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
Texts selected and annotated by Jean Ducange; Introduction by Slavoj Zizek