She attacks the "revisionist" history of scholars like François Furet, who view the Revolution through the lens of modern liberal democracy and judge it by "timeless" standards of morality rather than historical necessity. Critical Reception
The book includes a long foreword by Slavoj Žižek. Some reviewers find his introduction ill-suited or more of a "movie review" than a historical guide, though others find it valuable for framing the "objective violence" of systems.
Some critics find the delivery difficult, noting the language is often torturously abstract and "hyper-intellectualized".