In opposition to the Newtonian mechanistic view of nature he sees nature as an organic system of opposed forces with a built-in telos towards the emergence of consciousness. |
Written well before the emergence of identity politics, it has no a priori commitment to the telos of its hero's self-understanding. |
Action is the masculine force of narrative, femininity the topoi and telos of its trajectory. |
Pinus resinosa, telos and Grand Lake, a little afterwards here and there. |
But there is a directionality in the sense that the earlier stages have the later ones as their telos, or goal, while the later stages both presuppose and include the earlier ones as important but subordinate moments. |
Perhaps, dislocated as they are now from their original telos, the cycle could continue to release cathectic energies and be transformed into a nonspecific work of mourning. |