Between / Beyond / Hybrid

Everyone calls for it, but no one knows what the subject matter of this call really istransdisciplinarity. After a period in which it went from an academic invitation to a demand urgently to be fulfilled, the concept has recently been losing its pull. High time to approach the concept anew and in a new form.

This volume collects prominent voices in the debate on transdisciplinarity in a transdisciplinary manner. Its coincidence of content and form in presenting main papers and critical replies to them from a different discipline allows for a vivid discussion and new insights. These stylistically and thematically divergent contributions are linked by reservations about transdisciplinarity as an allround intellectual weapon and the conviction that its programmatic weight could be regained by approaching the subject from the marginstransdisciplinarity where it breaks down, fails, comes to an end. Unravelling transdisciplinarity's contours by clarifying its limits.

Autorentext
Sass, Hartmut vonHartmut von Sass ist Professor für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie sowie Inhaber einer Heisenberg-Stelle an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zu seinen Publikationen zählen Sprachspiele des Glaubens und Gott als Ereignis des Seins, beide bei Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010 und 2013, erschienen; sowie Comparatively. On the Theory, Practice and Ethics of Comparisons, London, Bloomsbury 2020.

Klappentext

Everyone calls for it, but no one knows what the subject matter of that call really is-transdisciplinarity. After a period in which that call had not only been an academic invitation, but rather a demand urgently to be fulfilled, the concept is loosing its grip for some time already. High time to approach the concept anew and in a new form.

This volume collects prominent voices of the debate on transdisciplinarity in a transdisciplinary manner. This coincidence of content and form in presenting main papers and critical replies to them from a different discipline allows for a vivid debate and new insights. What combines these stylistically as well as thematically divergent contributions is the reservation against transdisciplinarity as intellectual weapon for every hitch and the conviction that its programmatic weight could be regained by approaching the topic from the margins - transdisciplinarity where it breaks down, fails, comes to an end. Unravelling transdisciplinarity's contours by clarifying its limits.

Inhalt
9 - 10 Preface (Hartmut von Sass) 11 - 24 Transdisciplinaritya Drug on the Market? (Hartmut von Sass) 25 - 44 From Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity to Transdisciplinarity and Back Again (Jürgen Mittelstrass) 45 - 52 Transdisciplinary: from a Philosophical Stance to its Implementation (Harald Atmanspacher) 53 - 70 Art with Some T? (Florian Dombois) 71 - 76 Artists and the Transdisciplinary Workplace (Amrei Wittwer) 77 - 94 Transgressing Disciplines (Andrea B. Braidt) 95 - 100 Response to Andrea B. Braidt (Marco Meier) 101 - 124 Collaborating In and Beyond Science (Sabine Maasen) 125 - 132 Transdisciplinarity and Condensed Knowledge (Christoph Schenker) 133 - 146 Crossmapping (Elisabeth Bronfen) 147 - 152 Transdisciplinaritya Double-Agent Operation? (Christian Ritter) 153 - 166 Away from the Disciplines (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger) 167 - 172 The Way of Science, or Away from Science (Hartmut von Sass)