Virtue and Terror

Name: Virtue and Terror
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ISBN: 9781844675845

ISBN-10: 184467584X

ISBN-13: 9781844675845

Edition: 2007

Authors: Maximilien Robespierre, Jean Ducange, John Howe, Slavoj Zizek

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 1/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.484




Robespierre at the constituent assembly and the Jacobin club



On voting rights for actors and Jews



On the silver mark



On the condition of free men of colour



On the rights of societies and clubs



Extracts from on the war



In the national convention



Extracts from answer to Louvet's accusation



Extracts from on subsistence



On the trial of the king



Draft declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen



Extracts from in defence of the committee of public safety and against Briez



Extracts from report on the political situation of the republic



Response of the national convention to the manifestos of the kings allied against the republic



On the principles of revolutionary government



On the principles of political morality that should guide the national convention in the domestic administration of the republic



Extracts from speech of 8 Thermidor year II