Reason, Teleology, Dialectics

As has been previously discussed, four varieties of Reason are Distributive, Progressive, Totalizing, and Unifying, any further systematization of which seems problematic, since that would apparently require a question-begging privileging of one of the varieties.  Still, as is, an important distinction can be drawn between the first two and the last two--the latter are teleological, while the former are not.  That is, neither Distribution nor Progression are inherently delimited, while Totalization and Unification are.  So, for example, while prominent versions of Dialectical Reason are teleological, at least one is not.  In particular, Marxist Reason, which totalizes society, and Hegelian Reason, which contracts Reality to the self-consciousness of Universal Spirit, are inherently delimited processes.  In contrast, Adorno's Negative Dialectics is an, in principle, incompletable process, so it can be classified as 'Progressive' Reason.