false 52043 0 0 90565 184467584X 9781844675845 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171214378m/90565.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171214378s/90565.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90565.Virtue_and_Terror 3.86 22 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 of analogy for which he is famous.

"If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless."—Robespierre]]> 52043 3.86 22 3 2340358 3.98 2850 306 3058930 3.86 22 3 34748 3.90 321 37 2007 4284226 2908744074 9782908744071 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4284226.Poesies 0.0 0 52043 3.86 22 3 1994 6750701 2908327651 9782908327656 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6750701-oeuvres-de-maximilien-robespierre 0.0 0 52043 3.86 22 3 2007 4479938 3926623306 9783926623300 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4479938.Die_Franz_sische_Revolution_Eine_Dokumentation_in_Schriften_und_Reden 0.0 0 1869868 0.0 0 0 52043 3.86 22 3 2001