John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-action

Christian Morgner’s (University of Leicester, UK) research interests include social justice, communication, social theory and development. He previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and was as a Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has also held visiting fellowships at Yale University, USA; University of Lucerne, Switzerland; University of Leuven, Belgium, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France.

• Chapter 1: Reinventing Social Relations and Processes: John Dewey and Trans-actions.- Chapter 2: Causation is not everything: on constitution an dtrans-actional view of social science methodology.- Chapter 3: There is More to Groups of People than Just Groups and People: On Trans-Actional Analysis and Nationalism Studies.- Chapter 4: Trans-action, a processual and relational approach to organizations.- Chapter 5: Trans-actions in Music.- Chapter 6: The Emergence of Artistic Practice: From Self-Action to Trans-action.- Chapter 7: Updating Dewey's Transactional Theory of Action in Connection with Evolutionary Theory.- Chapter 8: From Inter-action to Trans-action: Ecologizing the Social Sciences.- Chapter 9: Human language as trans-actional autopoiesis.