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Everyone calls for it, but no one knows what the subject matter of this call really is-transdisciplinarity. 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 margins-transdisciplinarity where it breaks down, fails, comes to an end. Unravelling transdisciplinarity´s contours by clarifying its limits.

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9 - 10 Preface (Hartmut von Sass)11 - 24 Transdisciplinarity-a Drug on the Market? (Harmut 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 Transdisciplinarity-a 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)

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Sass, Hartmut von
Hartmut von Sass is deputy director of the Collegium Helveticum, an Institute for Advanced Studies in Zurich, and leader of the Ludwik Fleck Center for Philosophy of Science. He is also associate professor for systematic theology and philosophy of religion at the University of Zurich.

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