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Galten die Deutschen bis zur frühen Neuzeit noch als freiheitsliebend und schwer zu unterwerfen, verkehrte sich dieses Stereotyp seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert zunehmend ins Gegenteil. Doch so oft die deutsche Identität seitdem auch mit dem Wert oder Unwert des Gehorsams verknüpft wurde, so hat man bislang nie eingehend untersucht, was Gehorsam in Deutschland in verschiedenen Epochen im Detail bedeutete und wie sich Rechtfertigung und Kritik dieses Werts verschoben. Wurde Gehorsam mit der Autorität der Befehlenden gerechtfertigt oder mit der Rationalität des Befehls? Mit der heroischen Leistung der Gehorchenden oder schlicht pragmatisch damit, dass ein gewisses Maß an Gehorsam für das Funktionieren gesellschaftlicher Prozesse notwendig ist? Was veränderte sich zudem im Diskurs über Gehorsam, je nachdem ob man von Gehorsam gegenüber personaler Macht oder legalen Strukturen spricht? Und in welchem Maße kann Gehorsam als das Produkt einer freien Entscheidung gelten? Martin Wagner verfolgt die Wandlungen des Gehorsamsbegriffs von der Aufklärung bis zu den Protesten der 'Querdenker:innen' in der jüngsten Vergangenheit und schafft damit die Grundlage für eine historisch informierte Debatte über ein Reizwort der deutschen Geschichte.

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This new series presents original scholarly and essayistic work addressing the central status of literature in and for the human sciences. At stake in the monographs and essay collections are paradigms of literary forms for thinking the human sciences: the knowledge involved in a literary work; how modes of reading and writing shape and depend on an epoch or area of thinking; literature's affinities and points of resistance to what we call the humanities and the sciences. In other words, the series examines how literature works with and upon philosophy, rhetoric, technology, anthropology, sociology, statistics, economics, history, experimental science, mathematics etc. Paradigms is primarily concerned with German letters, but also includes its European and comparative literary contexts.All volumes will be published in English and are first reviewed by the series editors followed by a peer review from two academics in the particular area of specialization. Two to four volumes are planned annually. EditorsRüdiger Campe (Yale University, New Haven CT)Karen S. Feldman (University of California, Berkeley) Editorial BoardPaul Fleming (Cornell University)Eva Geulen (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin)Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary, University of London)Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University)Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University)Helmut Müller-Sievers (University of Colorado at Boulder)William Rasch (Indiana University, Bloomington)Joseph Vogl (Humboldt University, Berlin)Elisabeth Weber (University of California, Santa Barbara) Submission FormatThe series accepts monographs and edited volumes, if they systematically approach a specific topic and show a high level of coherence and focus.Please submit an abstract and table of contents with narrative description of each chapter (4-5 pages total, single-spaced) as well as a CV along with the complete manuscript.Only complete manuscripts can be evaluated. In exceptional cases, abstracts or outlines can be submitted to discuss the general fit of a book with the series' editors. Please understand that a final commitment for publication can only be reached on the basis of a complete manuscript.Manuscripts should have a minimum length of circa 200 pages (approximately 500,000 characters including spaces).Please submit your abstract, table of contents, and CV as one file; the complete manuscript as a second file to Dr. Myrto Aspioti: myrto.aspioti@degruyter.com.

Spending their summer holidays at their grandparents' house by the sea, Sam and her two brothers play a series of dangerous games, pitted against each other yet united in their secrecy from the grown-ups. But when they discover a fierce dog mysteriously trapped in an electrical substation, they face their first real challenge, one from which they cannot walk away. Meanwhile, on a long weekend in Germany, their aunt, Kate, and her new lover find themselves playing games of their own. In the red-light district of Munich, will Kate's surprising challenge for her boyfriend strengthen or destroy their relationship? Many years ago, Sam's grandfather, Richard, also played an unusual game, encouraged by a stranger, as part of a scientific experiment. The choices he made then have haunted him ever since. As Sam delves into her grandfather's secret she discovers that where free will turns to blind obedience, true horror lies.