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metahistory en · NOUN

Etymology

From meta- + history.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The history of history itself.
   • The fundamental perspective for conceiving “metahistory” can be found in largely German thinkers. The German historicism of Herder, followed by that of Kant—who took issue with Herder's “metahistorical” interpretations, and then Kant's own students who deepened the evidence for the generational history that is the foundation for “metahistory,” Friedrich Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Leopold von Ranke and finally Friedrich Meinecke. 2021, Mark E. Blum, The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 3:
   • It’s also a mega-depressing example of manufactured meta-history, where the slaughter of thirteen people was obscured by the need to impose a cogent narrative upon a scenario that had no cogent explanation. 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:

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metahistorical · historicism · historiography · metahistorian