Transcultural Studies:
A Series in Interdisciplinary Research

In the words of the Russian critic Mikhail Epstein, to adopt a transcultural orientation as a mode of inquiry means to be “located beyond any particular mode of existence”, or “finding one’s place on the border of existing cultures. This realm beyond all cultures is located inside of transculture and belongs to the state of not-belonging…”

The consequence of a critic adopting a position on the outside of whatever is conceived as the inside of his or her social and cultural domain requires is to escape “culture-centrism” or the totalizing effects of ideology. A transcultural critic, like Epstein, or a transcultural philosopher like Merab Mamardashvili, whose concept of nothingness is the ground of Epstein’s anti-position, eschews national and cultural identity, identity politics and multiculturalism.

The editorial board of Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research share the view that to embrace this kind of freedom from ideologically oriented or discipline-bound directions in scholarship requires a conscious effort that is not unlike the job of Socrates: the effort of ridding oneself of prejudices, idols and icons of scholarly fashion. In this spirit of freedom, the editorial board welcomes innovative methodologies on a wide range of emerging issues in the humanities.

Contributions are invited on interdisciplinary topics that go beyond the disciplinary and offer self-reflexive critiques of their own methodologies.

Each issue will focus on a specific topic or area and will have a guest editor. The core editorial board will plan and advertise topics for forthcoming issues and advise on the refereeing process.

Forthcoming Issues

• Transcultural Studes: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research. Vol. 4 (2008) Special Issue
"The Figure of Sophia in Literature and Culture."
Guest Editors: Evert van der Zweerde and Andrew Padgett.

• Transcultural Studes: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research. Vol. 5 (2009) Special Issue
"M M Mamardashvili and late-Soviet Philosophy."
Guest Editors: Tapani Laine, Evert van der Zweerde and Andrew Padgett.

Published Issues Click on covers to jump to downloadable files
Vol.1 (2005)		Vols. 2-3 (2006-2007)

Editorial Board

Series Editors	Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover	Monash University, Australia	Millicent.VladivGlover@arts.monash.edu.au
	Evert van der Zweerde	Raboud University, Nijmengen, Netherlands	evdzweerde@phil.ru.nl
Advisory Board	Robert Bird	University of Chicago, USA	bird@uchicago.edu
	Alexei Cherniakov	St Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy, Russia	alchern@peterlink.ru
	Manon de Courten	Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Netherlands	manondecourten@hotmail.com
	Aleksandr Dobrokhotov	Moscow State University, Russia	alexdobr@tochka.ru
	Mikhail Epstein	Emory University, USA	russmne@emory.edu
	Akın Ergüden	Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey	akine@metu.edu.tr
	Machiel Karskens	Radboud University, Netherlands	mkarskens@phil.ru.nl
	Andrew Padgett	Monash University, Australia	Andrew.Padgett@monashcollege.mcpl.edu.au
	James Phillips	University of New South Wales, Australia	j.phillips@unsw.edu.au
	Nicholas Rzhevsky	SUNY at Stonybrooke, USA	Nicholas.Rzhevsky@stonybrook.edu
	Sibyl Schwarzenbach	CUNY, New York, USA	sschwarzenbach@gc.cuny.edu
	Anton Simons	Roman Catholic Church, Archdiocese Utrecht, Netherlands	amsimons@xs4all.nl
	Bo Stråth	European University Institute, Florence, Italy	Bo.Strath@IUE.it
	Dirk Uffelmann	Bremen University, Germany	uffelma@pop.zfn.uni-bremen.de
	Slavoj Žižek	Institute for Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland	szizek@yahoo.com

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