This talk investigates quasi-transcendentality as a possible conceptual bridge between transcendental structures and concrete experiences. Moving beyond classical transcendental-philosophical requirements, quasi-transcendental structures arise from contingent historical processes yet operate as generative conditions for further experience and meaning-making. After outlining critical phenomenology’s commitment to interrogating how factors like race, class, and gender shape experience, I distinguish between different forms of universalism and relativism to clarify how quasi-transcendental structures are historically produced but come to function as normative matrices that shape perception, action, and social relations. Key examples illustrate this tension: Husserl’s habits and types, Merleau-Ponty’s body schema, Sartre’s practico-inert, Derrida’s constitutive exclusions, and Foucault’s historical a priori each show how contingent formations can create experiential path-dependencies. Finally, I look at some implications for anthropological research.