retrojection

Kaufman's subtle, dialectical negotiations of "retrojection" and radical genealogy are just right for this complex topic, a form of literary history that brilliantly illuminates the importance of the Shelley-Brecht "line."

Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin 2001

So it is very easy for us to do something called "retrojection," that is, to inject our current epistemology into the past - an error.

Insurgent American 2009

The ancients saw a cow give birth to a cow, give birth to a cow, etc; and they logically extended this phenomenological experience to an original cow [termed "retrojection"

Time Immortal 2008

After considering this way of reading the story, some may find themselves all the more eager to treat the story as a retrojection of dialogue between later Jews and Christians onto the lips of Jesus and Nicodemus.

Is John 3 Meant To Be A Historically Plausible Narrative? James F. McGrath 2010

I know that many childless couples cite fears of 'overcrowding' as justification for their failure to reproduce - my brother is a perfect example - but I see no evidence to suggest that this is anything but a retrojection, a post fact attempt to clothe what is essentially a self-ish decision in a modishly respectable garb.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

The use of this story today to claim one realm for religion and another for obedience to the state, the idea that there were two separate spheres in the state and religion then at all, is a grotesque retrojection of later interpretations into 1st Century Palestine.

Stan Goff: Who and Whose (Open Letter to Troops) 2008

The retrojection (the analogizing, arguably anachronistic application to Shelley) of Marxian, Marxian-inflected, and Frankfurt rubric has, with a few exceptions, proceeded without awareness of a remarkably direct literary trajectory that runs in the opposite direction: from Shelley right to the charged debates of the Frankfurt School and artists alongside it.

Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin 2001