Xeno meta narrative8/29/2023 Postmodernists attempt to replace metanarratives by focusing on specific local contexts as well as the diversity of human experience. He envisages a progressive politics that is ground in the cohabitation of a whole range of diverse and always locally legitimated language games. Borrowing from the works of Wittgenstein and his theory of the "models of discourse" Lyotard constructs his vision of a progressive politics. With the transition from modern to postmodern, Lyotard proposes that metanarratives should give way to 'petit récits', or more modest and "localised" narratives. Metanarratives have lost their power to convince, according to the advocates of postmodernism, – they are, literally, stories that are told in order to legitimise various versions of "the truth". Replacing grand, universal narratives with small, local narratives The latent diverse passions of human beings will always make it impossible for them to be marshalled under some theoretical doctrine and this is one of the reasons given for the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. They are also seen to embody unacceptable views of historical development, in terms of progress towards a specific goal. ![]() 'Metanarratives' ignore the heterogeneity or variety of human existence. First, attempts to construct grand theories tend to dismiss the naturally existing chaos and disorder of the universe. Lyotard and many other poststructuralist thinkers have viewed this as a positive development for a number of reasons. Modern skepticism toward metanarratives Īccording to Jean-François Lyotard, a defining condition of postmodernity is a widespread skepticism or "incredulity" toward metanarratives (1984). ![]() Other periodization schemes include the Dark Ages and [Renaissance.
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