![]() The majority of metanarratives tend to be relatively optimistic in their visions for humankind, some verge on utopian, but different schools of thought offer very different accounts. These grand, all-encompassing stories are typically characterised by some form of ‘transcendent and universal truth’ in addition to an evolutionary tale of human existence (a story with a beginning, middle and an end). They can also provide a framework upon which an individual’s own experiences and thoughts may be ordered. ![]() By this, Lyotard meant that the postmodern condition is characterized by an increasingly widespread skepticism toward metanarratives, such as the unique status of the individual, the boundedness of information, and the march of progress, that are thought to have given order and meaning to Western thought during modernity.Ī metanarrative can include any grand, all-encompassing story, classic text, or archetypal account of the historical record. The term is best known for its use by Jean-François Lyotard in the following quotation: “Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives”. Therefore, a metanarrative is a story about a story. The prefix meta means “beyond” and is here used to mean “about”, and a narrative is a story. ![]() In critical theory, and particularly postmodernism, a metanarrative (sometimes master- or grand narrative) “is a global or totalizing cultural narrative schema which orders and explains knowledge and experience“. METANARRATIVES: LYOTARD Octoat 1:12 am | Posted in Books, Globalization, History, Literary, Philosophy | Leave a comment ![]()
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