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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? Žižek’s introduction analyzes these contradictions with a prodigious breadth of analogy and reference.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786633378
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/14/2017
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 1,020,159
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

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

Introduction vii

Suggested Further Reading li

Glossary xliii

Chronology xlix

Translator's Note liii

Part 1 Robespierre at the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club

1 On Voting Rights for Actors and Jews 3

2 On the Silver Mark 5

3 On the Condition of Free Men of Colour 20

4 On the Rights of Societies and Clubs 22

5 Extracts from On the War 26

Part 2 In the National Convention

6 Extracts from Answer to Louvet's Accusation 39

7 Extracts from On Subsistence 49

8 On the Trial of the King 57

9 Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 66

10 Extracts from in Defence of the Committee of Public Safety and Against Briez 73

11 Extracts from Report on the Political Situation of the Republic 80

12 Response of the National Convention to the Manifestos of the Kings Allied Against the Republic 91

13 On the Principles of Revolutionary Government 98

14 On the Principles of Political Morality that Should Guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic 108

15 Extracts from Speech of 8 Thermidor Year II 126

Notes 143

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