GRK 706: Cultural Hermeneutics: Reflections of Difference and Transdifference

在全球化和各群体重新关注其文化特殊性的时期，差异问题（根据种族、民族、宗教、性别、性偏好、阶级等）和跨文化交际已经成为标准的研究课题。差异可以从共时的角度来研究，也可以从历时的角度来研究，即从个人和社会发展的变化或连续阶段来研究。《毕业生奖学金》通过关注我们所称的跨差异来扩展这一学术视角：身份的重叠，跨边界忠诚的结合，以及由此产生的身份方面，这些身份方面来自于差异现象和互动形式的实际多样性。研究小组没有集中于连贯性和划界方面，而是重新审查了文化、文化间性和（文化）诠释学等术语，目的是超越现有的身份和他性模式，同时考虑到定义的力量和社会组织的秩序等方面。在这种情况下，跨差异被理解为一个总括术语，如杂交，跨文化性和过渡性（指系统以及个人）。

In the period of both globalization and the renewed interest of various groups in their cultural particularity, questions of difference (according to ethnicity, nation, religion, gender, sexual preference, class etc.) and of intercultural communication have become standard topics of research. Difference can be studied synchronically but also diachronically, i.e. with regard to changing or consecutive phases of individual and social development. The Graduiertenkolleg extends this scholarly perspective by focussing on what we term transdifference: the overlap of identifications, the combination of loyalties across boundaries and hence of identity facets resulting from the actual multiplicity of phenomena of difference and forms of interaction. Rather than concentrating on aspects of coherence and delimitation, the study group re-examines the terms culture, interculturality and (cultural) hermeneutics with the aim of transcending existing models of identity and alterity, while taking aspects like the power of definition and the order of societal organization into consideration. In this context transdifference is to be understood as an umbrella term for phenomena like hybridity, transculturality and transidentity (referring to systems as well as individuals).