countertendency

(ˈkaʊntəˌtɛndənsɪ)

n, pl -cies

an opposite tendency

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More profoundly, the postmaterialist thesis pays insufficient attention to the causes of insecurity that may (only temporarily in Inglehart's judgment) give rise to a countertendency toward materialism.

AFTER POSTMATERIALISM: AN ESSAY ON CHINA, RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES

Along the same line, David Camfield points to a "democratic countertendency" in many unions that "arises out of experiences of workers' self-activity and self-organization." This ever-renewing "democratic impulse" is reason enough to focus on democracy inside unions even in the face of the bureaucratic social relations that constrain the rank-and-file.

Union democracy as a foundation for a participatory society: a theoretical elaboration and historical example

Art becomes an image not directly by becoming an apparition but only through the countertendency to it" (Aesthetic Theory 81).

Intermediality and aesthetic theory in Shklovsky's and Adorno's thought

Arguably, in this moral debate we can discern a countertendency toward an affirmation of the jus in bello principle of noncombatant immunity, and a less permissive view about the right to war.

Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition and the Right to War in the Twenty-First Century

At the same time, in pondering recent answers to Frost's query to twentieth century poets--"what to make of a diminished thing"--I also find a countertendency that I would call Neoromantic in the work of poets like Roethke, Lowell, Berryman, Olson, Duncan, Everson, Levertov, Rich, Berry, Snyder.

Dana Gioia: a contemporary metaphysics

For Heidegger there is, of course, a fundamental choice built into this confrontation of Dasein with its being-toward the possible: Dasein either accepts authentically its existence in the openness of the possible as a task, or it flees inauthentically its ownmost sense as a task by immersing itself in its countertendency to forget, to obscure what is at stake in its confrontation with itself.