Virtue and Terror
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N208UCL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 111 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential iek, and many more. . 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, Slove
So how should a contemporary audience approach Robespierre’s vindication of revolutionary terror? iek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.. 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
His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential iek, and many more. 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. . About the AuthorMaximilien 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 iek is a Slovenian phi