Abstract

This chapter will offer a twofold contextualization of the term ‘trans-action’. It will give an overview of the interdisciplinary reception of this publication, including areas such as philosophy, psychology, educational theory, political science and literary studies. This overview will demonstrate how other disciplines have utilized the notion of trans-action to offer a perspective on seemingly essentialist dualisms, including the perceiver and perceived in psychology, teacher and student in educational theory or text and reader in literary studies. Based on the fruitful reception in these fields, this section is followed by a summary that outlines the concepts of self-action, inter-action and trans-action. A framework that provides an encompassing narrative for the chapters in this volume will be developed, contributing to our understanding of how a sociological response to the notion of trans-action might unfold.