Virtue & Terror Pa

by Robespierre,Maximilien

• ISBN13: 9781844675845
• ISBN10: 184467584X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

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, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.

Author Biography

Maximilien Robespierre 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.

Slavoj Žižek 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 Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

Table of Contents

Robespierre at the constituent assembly and the Jacobin club
On voting rights for actors and Jews	p. 3
On the silver mark	p. 5
On the condition of free men of colour	p. 20
On the rights of societies and clubs	p. 22
Extracts from on the war	p. 26
In the national convention
Extracts from answer to Louvet's accusation	p. 39
Extracts from on subsistence	p. 49
On the trial of the king	p. 57
Draft declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen	p. 66
Extracts from in defence of the committee of public safety and against Briez	p. 73
Extracts from report on the political situation of the republic	p. 80
Response of the national convention to the manifestos of the kings allied against the republic	p. 91
On the principles of revolutionary government	p. 98
On the principles of political morality that should guide the national convention in the domestic administration of the republic	p. 108
Extracts from speech of 8 Thermidor year II	p. 126
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