THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH OF POLITICS, OR THE PHILOSOPHY AS THE EXPERIMENTAL ADVENTURE

Abstract

This article offers a philosophical elaboration of the transdisciplinary approach to the study of politics, framing it as a complex cultural and ontological phenomenon that calls for a rethinking of both philosophy itself and the foundations of scientific knowledge. The author argues that traditional interdisciplinary frameworks, though epistemically fruitful, are insufficient to capture the full multidimensionality of the political — a field where logical, aesthetic, linguistic, religious, corporeal, and sacral dimensions of being intersect. Therefore, political philosophy must unfold as a transdisciplinary endeavor that does not merely cross

disciplinary boundaries but transforms the very structure of cognition, situating the philosopher as a participant in a living knowledge process — in vivo. In this sense, politics ceases to be a static object of analysis and becomes a situation of existential insight, requiring critical openness and a capacity to think through the logic of the included middle. Drawing on the ideas of J. Piaget, B. Nicolescu, J. Brenner, and L. Greenacre, as well as the philosophical heritage of Plato, Aristotle, Dante, and Aquinas, the article traces the historical continuity of transdisciplinary political thought. Special emphasis is placed on critiquing the naturalist assumptions in Nicolescu’s theory and supplementing them with alternatives from philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Austin), analytical logic, phenomenology, and possible worlds semantics. The article highlights the relevance of non-classical logics (particularly the logic of the included middle) as philosophical tools for engaging with ontological pluralism. It also examines the intersections between transdisciplinary political philosophy and fields such as holist epistemology, actor-network theory, transdisciplinary management, and experimental philosophy. Transdisciplinarity is envisioned as a heuristic journey — a theoria — which is both a mode of being and a mode of reflection, wherein philosophical discourse becomes an experimental construct. In this perspective, politics is no longer reducible to ideology or managerial technique, but is rediscovered as a transcendental-phenomenological event wherein the subjectivity of the researcher is situated on the threshold between worlds. The article concludes by reflecting on the significance of transdisciplinary vision for engaging with the European intellectual tradition in the context of civilizational crisis marked by postmodern relativism, technocratic reductionism, and emergent forms of authoritarianism.