Through his eminently simple, yet rhetorically brilliant use of the future tense, "people will ask" (sa-yas'alu), al-Ma'arri produces another chronological leap--now into the future--which has the effect of
retrojecting the present into the past, thereby shifting the perspective of time, history, and teleology.
When, then, as a heuristic device, we bring our counterpositional thesis into conversation with various parts of the Christian tradition, we become aware not just of its oversimplification and of our need to guard against
retrojecting modern conceptualities and questions into previous ages and situations.
Latour here is
retrojecting onto Tarde his own prior views that actor-network theory is not a theory but a way of flattening all categories and replacing theory with method.
Yet, even if Clement were
retrojecting his contemporary situation upon the past, this ecclesiological paradigm dates from the end of the second century.
It is the remark, therefore, of an altered poet who may well have been
retrojecting a later attitude toward reality onto his own earlier text.
These concerns about "
retrojecting" later Franciscan debates into Francis's words and actions are especially pertinent to the question of poverty, which at least in a material sense is not a dominant theme in Francis's own writings.
By
retrojecting thematic significance onto our lives, End-time scenarios create an attractive element of suspense: will things turn out as we anticipate, or not?
Given the incredible range of biblical interpretation from the Persian period to the Talmud, Kugel found this overlap more a product of Fishbane's
retrojecting rabbinic categories onto biblical ones rather than an objective finding of facts.
Rather than reducing a structural tension, this production increased a given harmony, by
retrojecting it.
I have taught this text as an example of the ways the Rabbis system atically displaced the Torah's martial traditions by either reframing them as figurative or
retrojecting them into the distant past.