Meaning of metahistory | Babel Free

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The history of history itself.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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