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- noun Plural form of
metanarrative .
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Examples
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Mind you, cyclic and historicist views of history are both out of fashion these days; there is no shortage of scholars who lump them together as "metanarratives", and insist that they should be banned from serious history.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2009
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Mind you, cyclic and historicist views of history are both out of fashion these days; there is no shortage of scholars who lump them together as "metanarratives", and insist that they should be banned from serious history.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2009
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These kinds of metanarratives are only going to become more prevalent.
Howard Hughes is Allergic to the Stupid readingthedark 2010
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Despite skepticism about whether utopian thinking can and should survive in a world where socialist experiments have failed, capitalism is stalking the globe relentlessly, and postmodernism has evacuated grand theories and metanarratives, the concept has found new advocates who are redefining its relevance.
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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The same cannot be said for many other grand metanarratives on the market today.
The Kingdom of God James F. McGrath 2010
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Thus, schemata are like “mini-theories” or “mini-paradigms”, and can include so-called “metanarratives” or “superstories” that provide a comprehensive explanation of all of reality.
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It allowed them to modify imported French metaphors and metanarratives.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Indeed, postmodernism has pointed out again and again that what we see and what we believe to be true about life and society are fundamentally conditioned by the worldview or metanarratives of our own culture, and those change over time.
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That caution with regards to grand schemes and economic metanarratives must be the order of the day.
Archive 2009-01-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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That caution with regards to grand schemes and economic metanarratives must be the order of the day.
Post-Enlightenment economics Burke's Corner 2009
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