📚 noun • entry_id 50413
metanarrative
Meanings (ES + gloss)
grandes narrativas • grandes relatos • macrorrelato • metanarrativa • metarrelato
A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
Even the richest metanarratives of finitude cannot ultimately explain themselves, for they have no way to synoptically do so: a larger metanarrative, one rooted in the metaphysical…
The narratives are important in themselves as significant pieces of the metanarrative of suspicion in which activist politics have been embedded since the McCarthy era (with roots…
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