TY - JOUR AU - Baake-Hansen, Martin PY - 2013/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - DET ER TIDENS SKYLD! - OM NOSTALGI OG ETIK I JOSEPH ROTHS RADETZKYMARCH JF - K&K - Kultur og Klasse JA - KoK VL - 41 IS - 115 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/kok.v41i115.15883 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/15883 SP - 167-179 AB - TIME IS TO BLAME! ETHICS AND NOSTALGIA IN JOSEPH ROTH’S THE RADETZKY MARCH | Nostalgia is a key concept in the work of Joseph Roth. Referring to John J. Su, this article asks whether we can speak of an ethics of nostalgia in his 1932 novel <em>The Radetzky March</em>. In this novel Roth draws up a nostalgic portrait of the Habsburg Empire which collapsed during the First World War. The aesthetic interpretation of the Habsburg Empire that <em>The Radetzky March</em> is, has ethical implications insofar as it draws up a vision of a just society in which one can live a good life. Roth’s appraisal of the Habsburg Empire can be seen as a counter-image that displays what he hated most about the inter-war period, namely political nationalism. The paper argues that the nostalgia of the novel supports a critique of contemporary society that is also a conservative critique of nationalism. The nostalgic portrait of the Habsburg Empire points to a vision of how to live a good life, which leads the article to conclude that we can in fact speak of an ethics of nostalgia in <em>The Radetzky March</em>. ER -