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portada In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Preface by
Publisher
Year
2016
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.6 x 13.0 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.16 kg.
ISBN13
9781784782023

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (in English)

Sophie Wahnich (Author) · Slavoj Zizek (Preface by) · Verso · Paperback

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (in English) - Slavoj Zizek

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Synopsis "In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (in English)"

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by "timeless" standards of morality. In this succinct essay, Sophie Wahnich explains how, contrary to prevailing interpretations, the institution of Terror sought to put a brake on legitimate popular violence--in Danton's words, to "be terrible so as to spare the people the need to be so"--and was subsequently subsumed in a logic of war. The Terror was "a process welded to a regime of popular sovereignty, the only alternatives being to defeat tyranny or die for liberty."
Slavoj Zizek
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Slavoj Žižek (Liubliana, 21 de marzo de 1949) es un filósofo, psicoanalista y crítico cultural esloveno. Es director internacional del Instituto Birkbeck de Humanidades de la Universidad de Londres.​ Imparte filosofía continental, psicoanálisis, teoría política, estudios culturales, crítica cinematográfica, marxismo, hegelianismo y teología.

En 1989, Žižek publicó su primer texto en inglés, The Sublime Object of Ideology (El sublime objeto de la ideología), en el que se apartó de la teoría marxista tradicional para desarrollar una concepción materialista de la ideología que se basó en gran medida en el psicoanálisis lacaniano y el idealismo hegeliano.

En 2012, Foreign Policy incluyó a Žižek en su lista de los 100 mejores pensadores globales, llamándolo una «celebridad filosófica».​ El trabajo de Žižek fue narrado en un documental del año 2005 titulado Zizek!. Una revista académica, el International Journal of Žižek Studies, se fundó para comprender su trabajo.
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