Virtue and Terror by Jean Ducange PAPERBACK 9781786633378

Name: Virtue and Terror by Jean Ducange PAPERBACK 9781786633378
Brand: Verso Books

Verso Books

Virtue and Terror\nby Jean Ducange\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jean Ducange\nTitle: Virtue and Terror\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions\nPublisher: Verso Books\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781786633378\nISBN-10: 178663337X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nRobespierre'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 Enlighten.