Origin
Heterotelic is directly derived from the Greek roots héteros meaning “other” and tele- meaning “distant”.
Quotes
Therefore, what has been proposed above as a means of redirecting the development of postmodernity toward more livable, human dimensions is a heterotelic narrative transitivity—an active reimmersion of narrative in the social—which contrasts sharply with the autotelic concern for their own procedures and the hermetic intransitivity of modernist self-consciousness and late modernist self-reflexivity.
— Joseph Francese, Narrating Postmodern Time and Space
