# Virtue and Terror

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- Authors: [Maximilien Robespierre](https://www.bookquiver.com/maximilien-robespierre)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-01-17

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

## Editions

### Virtue and Terror

- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-17-8663-337-8
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2017-11-14
- Language: en_US

### Virtue and Terror

- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4467-584-5
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2007-01-17
- Language: en_GB