- A
metanarrative (also meta-narrative and
grand narrative; French: métarécit or
grand récit) is a
narrative about narratives of
historical meaning, experience...
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thought to be "a
wrong war
fought for the
wrong reasons"; it
lacks the
metanarrative of good
versus evil that
characterizes retellings of the
Second World...
- that is.
Postmodernists reject metanarratives because they
reject the
conceptualization of
truth that
metanarratives presuppose.
Postmodernist philosophers...
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second most po****r
scientific profession,
after medicine. A
common metanarrative of the
Enlightenment is the "secularization theory". Modernity, as understood...
-
knowledge in
postmodern society as the end of 'grand narratives' or
metanarratives,
which he
considers a
quintessential feature of modernity.
Lyotard introduced...
- philosophy, the term in****tion is used to
explain a
special kind of
metanarrative. It was
first used by
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French: in****tion) to...
-
theory critiques theories like
Marxism that
provide an
overarching metanarrative to history. Key
postmodern thinkers include Jean-François Lyotard, Michel...
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descendants of
survivors support the new
Jewish community in Hebron. In the
metanarrative of Zionism,
according to Mic****e Campos, the
event became 'a central...
- "Che myth",
allowing him to be
invariably crystallized in his many
metanarrative roles as a "Red
Robin Hood, Don
Quixote of communism, new Garibaldi...
- The
Matter of
Britain (French: matière de Bretagne) is the body of
medieval literature and
legendary material ****ociated with
Great Britain and Brittany...
