Virtue and Terror - Brossura

Robespierre, Maximilien

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ISBN 10: 178663337X ISBN 13: 9781786633378

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2017

Riassunto

<b>Robespierre&rsquo;s justification of the Terror in the French Revolution</b><p>Robespierre&rsquo;s defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written. It has an 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&rsquo;s vindication of revolutionary terror? &#142;i&#158;ek&rsquo;s introduction analyzes these contradictions with a prodigious breadth of analogy and reference.</p>

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<b>Maximilien Robespierre</b> 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.<br><br><b>Slavoj &#142;i&#158;ek</b> is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include <i>Living in the End Times</i>, <i>First as Tragedy, Then as Farce</i>, <i>In Defense of Lost Causes</i>, four volumes of the Essential &#142;i&#158;ek, and many more.

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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? ?i?ek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 178663337X
• ISBN 13: 9781786633378
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 154
• Redattore: Ducange Jean
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile