A Vision of Modernity: Narratives of Historical (Dis)continuity in Oman by Corina Lozovan

“…Be it in academic publications, official speeches or ordinary narratives, the history of Oman and the foundations of its modern nation-state usually appear as a continuous teleological process. The dichotomies such as tradition vis-à-vis modernity and darkness versus enlightenment (or nahḍa) are articulated into a narrative of progression and transformation. …”
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Le congréganiste hors la société ? Les dynamiques de laïcisation de la « République radicaliste » au prisme d’une approche d’anthropologie politique (France, 1902-1906)... by Julien Bouchet

“…The difficult implications of this ideological act required the State to reconsider its relations with intermediate bodies and discuss the teleological thesis of this trial secularization, which would have prevailed in France with little dissent.…”
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Another Life. Democracy, Suicide, Ipseity, Autoimmunity by Ronald Mendoza-de-Jesús

“…Autoimmunity thus provides a way for thinking of a democratic life that is not entirely determined by the teleological power of any divinely good life.…”
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Dissenting Differently: Solidarities and Tensions between Student Organizing and Trans-Kothi-Hijra Activism in Eastern India by Aniruddha Dutta

“…Thus, these unstable coalitions raise uncertain and unexpected possibilities that disrupt linear or teleological trajectories of political mobilization.…”
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Les Routes de la soie, invention impérialiste ? by Laurent Testot

“…This is why the Mongol Empire yesterday, and Xi Jinping's China today, fit perfectly into a narrative framework that is as restrictive as it is teleological. Let us make a bet: by taking a step aside, would global history make it possible to restore the thickness and complexity of what it would call the « silk roads », in order to emancipate them from this imperialist dimension and to restore more broadly how they have deeply affected world history?…”
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Un radical discret : l’esclavage dans la pensée singulière de Félix Tanco Bosmeniel by Karim Ghorbal

“…The ideological radicality of his actions and writings invites a reconsideration of pre-conceived notions, leaving aside the specifics of his discourse, which allows us to break away from a certain teleological way of viewing the colonial history of Cuba. …”
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THE QUOTATION IN TIBERIU OLAH’S “SINFONIA GIOCOSA (!?)” by Olguţa LUPU

“…Despite their diversity, the quotations are fastened by a common DNA (the trichord), the work acquiring thus a teleological, centripetal, ordering function. …”
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Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (1987): A Critique of Post-Colonial Utopianism by Marwa Essam Eldin Fahmy Alkhayat

“…As such, the remarkable characteristic of Post-Colonial Utopianism is critique, and “Subjective Utopia” strives to achieve a breach in the teleological ideology of historical structures; thereby, transformation is the central aesthetic strategy of post-colonial critique.…”
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“For Such Purposes As”: Towards an Embedded and Embodied Understanding of Torture’s Purpose by Ergün Cakal

“…This paper will draw and build upon the literature and jurisprudence pertaining to a functionality-oriented, teleological construction of torture, before situating the discussion in torture's broader ecology in order to critically examine and expand understandings of its purpose, bottom-up, situationally and institutionally.…”
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Critical Data Governance by Preeti Raghunath

“…This suggests a double bias towards (a) a linear teleological model of progress, (b) propelled by claims of objectivity and pristine scientific rationality inherent to Data. …”
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Explanation of Intelligent Design and its Challenges with Evolutionary Theory by Haleh Abdollahi Rad

“…As this paper has indicated the main challenges between evolutionists and ID proponents, thus we, at first, explain the teleological argument as the root of the theory of intelligent design, and in the second place, a summary of the claims of evolutionists and supporters of intelligent design about the formation of beings are considered. …”
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Mysticism and War: Reflections on Bergson and his Reception During World War I by Donna V. Jones

“…Finally I suggest that Bergson subtly changed his understanding of the élan vital in the course of the Great War, compromising in the process its initially non-teleological character in order to ensure that his doctrines would only be implicated in international peace, not jingoistic war propaganda.…”
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Heuristic Techniques in Computer Aided Circuit Analysis by Sussman, Gerald Jay, Stallman, Richard Matthew

“…EL's reasoning is based on the concept of a "local one-step deduction" augmented by various "teleological" principles and by the concept of a "macro-element". …”
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Sublime disorder by Curran, A

“…By chronicling the ideological component of the <i>philosophe’s</i> presentation of monstrosity from the <i>Lettre sur les aveugles</i> to <i>Le Neveu de Rameau</i>, this book reveals Diderot’s ‘random and accidental’ monsters to be, ironically, the most teleological of all beings: created and staged, as it were, for a particular textual world where materialist dogma is as important as disinterested anatomical study. …”

Choreographic re-embodiment between text and dance by Jones, S

“…Using the theories of Gabriele Brandstetter and Paul Ricoeur to explore correspondences in dance and literary skepticism about narrative, the discussion shows how both writers interpolate their stories with fleeting passages of gesture or movement phrases that syncopate and undermine the teleological flow of narrative. This discussion suggests a choreographic re-embodiment between dance and text that focuses on communication beyond words. …”

KOSOVO-SERBIA DIALOGUE: FROM BRUSSELS TO OHRID by Bashkim Rrahmani, Petrit Bushi, Flamur Gashi

“…To achieve the paper’s objectives, the authors employed the methods of legal analysis, teleological analysis, description analysis, logical analysis, and comparative analysis. …”
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Visions of Disrupted Chronologies: Sergei Eisenstein and Hedwig Fechheimer’s Cubist Egypt by Leanne Rae Darnbrough

“…Fechheimer adapted the philological focus of her Berlin School contemporaries to create an ahistorical, anti-teleological grammar of ancient Egyptian art which espoused an artistic affinity between the Egyptians and the Cubist movement. …”
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Why Parent Together? by Marcus William Hunt

“…I suggest that co-parenthood contains parenthood virtually, that the co-parents’ love of their child is a manifestation of their love for one another, that the teleological fulfilled state of the friendship between parent and child exists in the friendship of co-parents.…”
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THE QUOTATION IN TIBERIU OLAH’S “SINFONIA GIOCOSA (!?)” by Olguţa LUPU

“…Despite their diversity, the quotations are fastened by a common DNA (the trichord), the work acquiring thus a teleological, centripetal, ordering function. …”
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EVALUATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF TAX FAIRNESS IN THE TAX ON INCOME OF NATURAL PERSONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA by Sejdefa Dzafche

“…Additionally, the teleological method was used to identify the level of realization of the goals and functions of the RNM tax system. …”
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