**Meet the editor**

Professor Dr Asunción López-Varela BA, MA (Hons.), PhD (Hons.) teaches at Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain. Her areas of research include socio-semiotics, comparative cultural studies and intermediality. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies and the Harvard Institute for World Literature, and coordinates the

research program: Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation. Dr. López-Varela participates in the advisory boards of Cultura - International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA), CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, and Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences (CJES).

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Jeffrey Foss

Sylvain K. Cibangu

Jaap den Hollander

Chapter 4 **The Significance of Intermediality** 

Montserrat Martínez García

Chapter 5 **Western and Eastern Ur-Topias:** 

David John Farmer

**Section 3 Citizenship Participation** 

Carlo Sessa

**Section 1 Science and Interdisciplinarity 1** 

Chapter 2 **Karl Popper and the Social Sciences 19** 

**Section 2 Communities and Their Representations 59** 

**Communities and Nostalgia 77**  Anjan Sen and Asun López-Varela

**and Sustainable Communities 121** 

Chapter 7 **Sustainability Science and Citizens Participation:** 

**Economics as Example 105** 

Chapter 6 **Social Science as a Complex and Pluri-Disciplinary System:** 

**Building a Science-Citizens-Policy Interface to Address Grand Societal Challenges in Europe 123** 

**in the Immortalization of the French Republican Nation (1789-1799) 61** 

Chapter 1 **Are the Social Sciences Really- and Merely- Sciences? 3** 

Chapter 3 **Historicism, Hermeneutics, Second Order Observation: Luhmann Observed by a Historian 39** 
