Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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The Transcendental Turn: Kant's Critical Philosophy, Contemporary Theory, And Popular Culture

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Mitchell, Kevin Michael, Thesis advisor (ths): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Holdsworth, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Mitchell, Liam, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
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 …

The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West: the Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Mincheva, Dilyana Lyubomirova, Thesis advisor (ths): Panagia, Davide, Degree committee member (dgc): Wernick, Andrew, Degree committee member (dgc): Fekete, John, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>The dissertation explores and defends the theory and practice of a Western-Islamic public sphere (which is secular but not secularist and which is Islamic but not Islamist), within which a critical Islamic intellectual universe can unfold, dealing hermeneutically with texts and politically with lived practices, and which, moreover, has to emerge from within the arc of two alternative,… more
Full Text: The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West: the Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in …

Archaeology of Vagabondage: South Asia's Colonial Encounter and After

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Ray, Avishek, Thesis advisor (ths): Junyk, Ihor, Degree committee member (dgc): McLachlan, Ian, Degree committee member (dgc): Bandyopadhyay, Debaprasad, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>My research examines the figure of the 'vagabond' as a case study to illustrate how 'modern' </p><p>perception of the 'vagabond' has depleted the diversities in its 'pre-modern' counterparts. It </p><p>argues that the paranoia towards the 'vagabond' was inherited from the west out of the </p><p>colonial… more
Full Text: ARCHAEOLOGY OF VAGABONDAGE: SOUTH ASIA'S COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND AFTER A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …