Virtue and Terror
Published on 26. September 2017
208 pages
978-1-78663-338-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78663-338-5 (9781786633385)
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Robespierre, or, The 'Divine Violence' of Terror
- Suggested Further Reading
- Glossary
- Chronology
- Translator's Note
- Part One: Robespierre at the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club
- 1. On Voting Rights for Actors and Jews
- 2. On the Silver Mark
- 3. On the Condition of Free Men of Colour
- 4. On the Rights of Societies and Clubs
- 5. Extracts from 'On the War'
- Part Two: In the National Convention
- 6. Extracts from 'Answer to Louvet's Accusation'
- 7. Extracts from 'On Subsistence'
- 8. On the Trial of the king
- 9. Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- 10. Extracts from 'In Defence of the Committee of Public Safety and Against Briez'
- 11. Extracts from 'Report on the Political Situation of the Republic'
- 12. Response of the National Convention to the manifestos of the Kings Allied Against the Republic
- 13. On the Principles of Revolutionary Government
- 14. On the Principles of Political Morality that should Guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic
- 15. Extracts from Speech Of 8 Thermidor Year II
- Notes
