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Virtue and terror

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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?

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1786633388 / 9781786633385
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01/09/2017
England
English
208 pages
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