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Название: Virtue and Terror

Автор: Robespierre Maximilien

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Социальная психология

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VIRTUE AND TERROR

      A series of classic texts by revolutionaries in both thought and deed.

      Each book includes an introduction by a major contemporary writer

      illustrating how these figures continue to speak to readers today.

      VIRTUE

      AND TERROR

      MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE

      INTRODUCTION BY SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

      TEXTS SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BY JEAN DUCANGE

      TRANSLATION BY JOHN HOWE

      This edition published by Verso 2017

      Translation © John Howe 2007, 2017

      Introduction © Slavoj Žižek 2007, 2017

      All rights reserved

      The moral rights of the authors and translator have been asserted

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-337-8

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-339-2 (US EBK)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-338-5 (UK EBK)

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758–1794. | éZiézek, Slavoj, contributor.

      Title: Virtue and terror / Maximilien Robespierre; introduction by Slavoj éZiézek; texts selected and annotated by Jean Ducange; translation by John Howe.

      Description: 2017 edition. | London; Brooklyn, NY: Verso, [2017] | Series:

      Revolutions | Series: Virtue and terror | Originally published: Verso 2007. | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017025009 | ISBN 9781786633378 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781786633385

      (uk e-book)

      Subjects: LCSH: Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758–1794—Political and social

      views. | France-History-Revolution, 1789–1799. | Political

      violence—France—History—18th century.

      Classification: LCC DC146.R6 A25 2017 | DDC 944.04092–dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025009

      Typeset in Bembo by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh

      Printed in the UK by CPI Mackays, UK

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Suggested Further Reading

      Glossary

      Chronology

      Translator’s Note

       Part One: Robespierre at the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club

       1On Voting Rights for Actors and Jews

       2On the Silver Mark

       3On the Condition of Free Men of Colour

       4On the Rights of Societies and Clubs

       5Extracts from On the War

       Part Two: In the National Convention

       6Extracts from Answer to Louvet’s Accusation

       7Extracts from On Subsistence

       8On the Trial of the King

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

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

       11Extracts from Report on the Political Situation of the Republic

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

       13On the Principles of Revolutionary Government

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

       15Extracts from Speech of 8 Thermidor Year II

       Notes

       INTRODUCTION

       ROBESPIERRE, OR, THE ‘DIVINE VIOLENCE’ OF TERROR

       Slavoj Žižek

      When, in 1953, Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Prime Minister, was in Geneva for the peace negotiations to end the Korean War, a French journalist asked him what he thought about the French Revolution; Zhou replied: ‘It is still too early to tell.’ In a way, he was right: with the disintegration of the ‘people’s democracies’ in the late 1990s, the struggle for the historical significance of the French Revolution flared up again. The liberal revisionists tried to impose the notion that the demise of Communism in 1989 occurred at exactly the right moment: it marked the end of the era which began in 1789, the final failure of the statist-revolutionary model which first entered СКАЧАТЬ