Virtue and Terror

Maximilien Robespierre

By: Maximilien Robespierre, John Howe (Translator), Jean Ducange (Editor)

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Paperback | 17 January 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal: terror, without which virtue is powerless." - Robespierre"

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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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