{"product_id":"in-defence-of-the-terror-liberty-or-death-in-the-french-revolution-paperback","title":"In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSophie Wahnich\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSlavoj Zizek\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Wahnich\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian based at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales in Paris. Her previous publications include \u003ci\u003eL'impossible citoyen\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eL'étranger dans le discours dela Révolution française\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Longue patience du peuple: 1792, naissancede la République\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978557817133,"sku":"9781784782023","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Sk9MMVV0cE5Sa3dJTSsvek8rdG5pQT09.webp?v=1775805801","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/in-defence-of-the-terror-liberty-or-death-in-the-french-revolution-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}