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Virtue and Terror - Robespierre, Maximilien, and Zizek, Slavoj (Introduction by), and Ducange, Jean (Editor)
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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? Zizek takes a helter-skelter route ...

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Virtue and Terror 2017, Verso

ISBN-13: 9781786633378

Trade paperback

Virtue and Terror 2007, Verso, London, England

ISBN-13: 9781844675845

Trade paperback