Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This dissertation traces the concept of transcendentalism from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) to Michel Foucault's historical a priori and Pierre Bourdieu's field and habitus, with implicit reference to Deleuze's `transcendental empiricism,' and the influence this trajectory has had on contemporary theory and culture. This general conceptual framework is… more Full Text: THE TRANSCENDENTAL TURN: KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY, CONTEMPORARY THEORY, AND POPULAR CULTURE A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the …