ABSTRACT
Without the hyphen in this book's title, the in-between would revert to its prepositional status, calling for nominal support to bolster its place in the sentence. However, this tide is a borrowing of sorts, from a writer, a review, and even a whole intellectual context that might seem at first glance to share little ground with the kind of interdisciplinary preoccupations that dominate current literary or cultural studies. Contemporary usage in English of the concept of 'in-betweenness' is also articulated around a time lag whereby other significations crowd in to prevent the linear unfolding of history. Jean Paulhan's thinking ran contrary to a significant band of the political spectrum in France in the 1930s in that it was not built on the premise that the bourgeois political order was untenable and bound to come apart under the pressure of egalitarian demands. Challenges to the liberal concept of contract law come from all sides in recent critic.
