Department of Comparative Literature
The Tragedy of Revolution
Revolution as Hubris in Modern Tragedy
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Project
  • Publications
  • Bibliography
  • Nota Bene
  • Arts
    • fiction
    • film
    • fine arts
    • music
    • poetry
    • theatre
  • Blog
  • Index
    • Adorno
    • agonism
    • anarchism
    • Arendt
    • autonomy
    • Benjamin
    • Butler
    • Camus
    • Castoriadis
    • the common
    • crisis
    • defeat
    • democracy
    • Derrida
    • disengagement
    • disobedience
    • emergency
    • Fanon
    • Foucault
    • founding
    • fraternity
    • freedom
    • gender
    • governance
    • Gramsci
    • hubris
    • law
    • the Left
    • melancholy
    • Mouffe
    • Negri
    • performance
    • power
    • resistance
    • revolt
    • revolution
    • Schmidt
    • terror
    • tragic politics
    • violence
    • Žižek

Categories

Plays

Novels

Movies

Music

Studies

Thoughts

Links

agonism
Arendt
Benjamin
Camus
Castoriadis
democracy
Derrida
Fanon
Foucault
founding
governance
friends
Gramsci
hubris
law
Mouffe
Negri
power
rebellion
revolt
revolution
Schmidt
Shakespeare
terror
tragedy
violence
Žižek

 

  • Site Overview

    Introduction
    Structure

    Vassilis Lambropoulos
    C. P. Cavafy Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature

    vlambrop@umich.edu
  • Follow Blog via Email

    Follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • Follow The Tragedy of Revolution on WordPress.com

    Parallel blog of further reflections on solidarity and collaborative culture:
    https://poetrypiano.wordpress.com
  • In The News

    • “In a Hospital Ward, the Wounds of a Failed Democracy Don’t Heal”

      January 4, 2023
    • Basil Adra: “A day of civil disobedience in Shuafat Refugee Camp”

      October 12, 2022
    • “Economic Neglect and Political Instability Unraveled Tunisia’s Democracy”

      August 22, 2022
    • Maximillian Alvarez: “Lessons from Wisconsin’s 2011 worker uprising”

      April 30, 2022
  • Recent Blog Posts

    • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: “The Unknown History Of Black Uprisings”

      February 4, 2023
    • Marcello Tarì’s “There Is No Unhappy Revolution” reviewed by Chrys Papaioannou

      February 4, 2023
    • Catherine Malabou: Two video interviews on anarchism and philosophy

      February 4, 2023
    • Julia Kornberg: “In Rocinante’s Stirrups: Che Guevara’s quixotic journey”

      February 2, 2023