what merits attention is that modern metaphysics none the less gave birth to the reconstitution of great narratives - Christianity, Enlightenment, romanticism, German speculative idealism, Marxism - which are not entirely foreign to mythical narratives. They do, certainly, imply that the future remains open as the ultimate aim of human history, under the name of emancipation. But they retain from myth the principle according to which the general course of history is conceivable.