In Defence of Metanarrative in the Philosophy of History
Interstitio. East European Review of Historical Anthropology 2 (1):7-22 (2008)
| Abstract | The aim of this paper is to consider the standard objections put against the construction of metanarratives in the philosophy of history. The author distinguishes following intelectual sources questioning the grasp of Entirety in the philosophy of history: anti-naturalistic German philosophy of science, dogmatic Marxism, liberalism and postmodernism. Analysis of the content of these stances allows for disclose of hidden methodological and theoretical premises which are responsible for misunderstanding and critique of the historiosophical discourse | |||||||||
| Keywords | Metanarrative postmodernism in history speculative philosophy of history | |||||||||
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