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For the time being, interculturality research is most of all characterised by a theoretical focus on space, thus largely ignoring temporality. However, as processes of cultural differentiation happen over time, and as their relationality can only be grasped in temporal terms, investigations into temporality promise to be significantly insightful for interculturality research, this insightfulness not at all coming second to the spatial. The temporal also provides the possibility to look at cultures not only in their horizontal but also in their vertical diversity. This introduction to the special issue offers an outlook at the possible epistemic gain by making interculturality research temporal: in the context of a pluralisation of concepts of time as well as of historical time and in the context of the aestheticisation of other kinds of temporality in literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]