The End of “Grand Narratives” and America’s “Spiritual Recession”
http://www.politicaltheology.com/blog/the-end-of-grand-narratives-and-americas-spiritual-recession/ 15 Jul, 2014 Carl Raschke 0 Comments Essays The “postmodern condition,” as Jean-François Lyotard designated it in 1979, is an “incredulity toward metanarratives.” That definition has been recited interminably by those grasping for a familiar sound-byte to encapsulate the significance of postmodernity. In the last few decades it has acquired overtones of a playful cultural experimentalism that has somehow outgrown the need for authoritative accounts of the meaning and purpose of human history. Furthermore, Lyotard’s expression “metanarrative” – or the more common equivalent “grand narrative,” often invoked by Marxists – has too often been associated with...