num_pages: 208
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.
language: English
title: Virtue and Terror
titlecomplete: Virtue and Terror
genres: Political Science, Politics, Philosophy, European History, French Revolution, Theory, Classics, Nonfiction, History, France
ratings_count: 404
publisher: Verso Books