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From Follett
Originally published: Verso 2007.;Includes bibliographical references. Contains selections from the speeches and writings of eighteenth-century lawyer and politician Robespierre that highlight his defense of the French Revolution, and includes commentary by Slavoj Zizek.
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Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French Revolution Robespierre'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's vindication of revolutionary terror? Zizek's introduction analyzes these contradictions with a prodigious breadth of analogy and reference.