This article aims to philosophically and theoretically reconstruct the concept of In-Between by placing “being in-between” at the centre of the experience that defines the contemporary world. In postmodern societies, individuals and institutions live in a state of perpetual transition between “rigid” structures that no longer function and new forms that have not yet been named; diagnoses such as risk society, liquid modernity, and social acceleration describe precisely the symptoms of this in-between-ness. This work brings together Plato's idea of metaxy, Arendt's public sphere of human relations, Turner's understanding of liminality and communitas, Bhabha's third space, and Bauman's analysis of liquid modernity/interregnum, condensing the common intuition emerging from a scattered literature into a conceptual core. The thesis put forward is that “In-Between” is neither merely a temporary void nor a purely chaotic interim period, but rather an ontologically potential-laden threshold, relationally an inter-human and inter-spatial network, and ethically and politically a space of possibility for plurality and inclusivity. While elaborating on these three dimensions of the concept, the article proposes In-Between not only as a subject but also as an interdisciplinary method of reading and thinking, thus offering a conceptual tool for discussions on social transformation, resilience, and new normative horizons.
Mehmet Recai Uygur* Gabija Skučaitė (Sat,) studied this question.