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