Usage examples (28)

• I was looking through Csikszentmihalyi's book for a succinct definition of what 'autotelic' means, but he teases out the concept throughout his work.
• They were generally sceptical of ˜autotelic™ conceptions of the artwork that view it as a self-contained object answerable only to its own formal rules.
• Rejecting the autotelic meaning offered in the narrative in and of itself, these readings become attempts to bind it to an "objective reality" which, in a postmodernist...
• It would be a mistake to conflate figurative language with directly referential language, but it is equally a mistake, I think, to treat this sort of "poetic" articulation as...