The “metanarratives” I was concerned with in The Postmodern Condition are those that have marked modernity: the progressive emancipation of reason and freedom, the progressive or catastrophic emancipation of labour (source of alienated value in capitalism), the enrichment of all humanity through the progress of capitalist technoscience, and even - if we include Christianity itself in modernity (in opposition to the classicism of antiquity) - the salvation of creatures through the conversion of souls to the Christian narrative of martyred love. Hegel’s philosophy totalizes all of these narratives and, in this sense, is itself a distillation of speculative modernity.