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Writing Empire. An Approach to Joseph Roth by Using the Political Theory of Herfried Münkler

This paper analyzes the ways in which literature and political theory react to the downfall of an empire. The aim is to show that Roth's novel Das falsche Gewicht, when analyzed with Herfried Münkler's theory of empire, proves to be a highly instructive literary representation of the contingency of literary orders as well as political ones. Between an imperial and a post- imperial situation lies the disintegration of an empire: a process enabling an acute observer—in this instance, Joseph Roth—to recognize the order of the imperial space as well as its borders. In his novels, Roth captures the logic of imperial domination with remarkable analytic precision. When one reads Roth with a view toward one of the central problems in scholarly as well as literary discourses on empire—the problem of center and periphery—it becomes obvious that both literature and political theory hinge upon the balance between them.

literature , political theory, theory of empire, contingency of literary orders, center periphery problem, Herfried Münkler, Joseph Roth

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