the industrial sphere of telic predestination

The Yellowstone Club represents the pinnacle, or inevitable telos, of the trajectory of extreme wealth concentration in the United States

There is a quasi-religious overtone to all of this—everything in the past has been moving toward a telos, a predestined end.

the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne

For Habermas, the inherent aim or telos of language was to reach understanding and bring about consensus

Beyond the vague cyclicality of what Purdy calls “going on living,” can there be teleology without a telos?

What unites the states of the Midwest—both the ailing and the tenuously “revived”—is a profound loss of telos, the realization that the industries and systems that built the region are no longer tenable

an old lumber town whose economic telos ended the day Chicago discovered steel

Modernity, in the sense of modernization and progress, or telos, was now definitively over

did October lead inexorably to Stalin? It is an old question, but one still very much alive. Is the gulag the telos of 1917?

According to this via negativa, God is ineffable, so far beyond quotidian language as to be incommunicable. All that can be said, in the negative way is what the telos of its concern is not

Ever since the trumpets at Jericho, at least, the telos of a wall is to be breached. It is at once its failure and its disavowed purpose to speed its way to ruin. To keep apocalypse out and to let it in.

between the supposed empirical reality of the event and the absolute ideality of the liberal telos

Barry Dingle's homunculus never achieves his telos

But to forego the telos is not to forego every progress that can take place in its direction

Utterly without a telos, it is so vast and, crucially, so diffuse, so devoid of a centre