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Science
has always been in conflict with narratives.
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Judged
by the yardstick of science, the majority of them
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prove
to be fables. But to the extent that science does to
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restrict
itself to stating useful regularities and seek the
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truth,
it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.
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It
then produces a discourse of legitimation with respect
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to
its own status, a discourse called philosophy. I will use
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the
term modern to designate any science that legitimates
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itself
with reference to a metadiscourse of this kind
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making
an explicit appeal to some grand narrative, such as
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the
dialectics of Spirit, the hermeneutics of meaning, the
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emancipation
of the rational or working subject, or the
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creation of
wealth.
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