Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stage of social evolution marked by the conversion of customary relations into true institutions.
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- noun The quality of being
institutional .
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Examples
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Oh and those who criticize the government's move with blather about "institutionality" ought to remember that in many of the parliamentary democracies they are so fond of there is no fixed schedule for national elections and the government can call them for whenever it believes it has the best chance of shafting the opposition.
Irish Blogs 2009
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Bentham's very opposition to this dimension of the plans, in the midst of general political support, looks like the perfect instantiation of secular institutionality itself.
Romantic Fear 2008
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Christian Viveros-Faune provides an excellent explanation why professionalization is not a good thing for the arts: Because nothing happens in a vacuum, in our present art world professionalization largely means—much as it has for U.S.-based lit. programs since the 1970s—basically the “instutionalization of anti-institutionality.”
Christian Viveros-Faune (updated) EAGEAGEAG 2009
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Christian Viveros-Faune provides an excellent explanation why professionalization is not a good thing for the arts: Because nothing happens in a vacuum, in our present art world professionalization largely means—much as it has for U.S.-based lit. programs since the 1970s—basically the “instutionalization of anti-institutionality.”
Archive 2009-06-01 EAGEAGEAG 2009
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Calls for a return to democratic institutionality.
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What's missing, in Vatican II's words, "belongs properly" to the Church and can even be found in certain quarters thereof, but is often excluded or driven out by institutionality.
Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007
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Guillory has come as close as he is able in this text to registering de Man's double or deconstructive reading of institutionality (and of the technically or rigorously or classically "didactic") as both determining and unstable, coercive and liberating.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Guillory's reification of institutionality yields as its precipitate both an incorrect characterization of deconstruction as "simply against institutions as such" (67), and, ironically, a return of the very anti-institutional, anti-technical idealism that he had objectified and expelled as "deconstruction" within his own discourse.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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In the wake of Guillory's flawed but productive interpretation, it becomes possible to think of de Man's oeuvre as a reflection on institutionality and pedagogy precisely because this oeuvre focuses so stubbornly on the problem of reading reading.
Article Abstracts 2005
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What's missing, in Vatican II's words, "belongs properly" to the Church and can even be found in certain quarters thereof, but is often excluded or driven out by institutionality.
Institutional vs. Intentional Mike L 2007
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