Metanarrative: A more comprehensive idea behind the story. In critical theory, and particularly postmodernism, a metanarrative (from meta-narrative, sometimes also known as a master- or grand narrative) is an abstract idea that is thought to be a comprehensive explanation of historical experience or knowledge. According to John Stephens it "is a global or totalizing cultural narrative schema which orders and explains knowledge and experience". The prefix meta- means "beyond" and is here used to mean "about", and narrative is a story constructed in a sequential fashion. Therefore, a metanarrative is a story about a story, encompassing and explaining other "little stories" within totalizing schemes.
Essentialism: The metaphysical view that in reality there exists not only individual objects, but also essences.
Utopian: Opposite of dystopian, A heavenly place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
Axiomatic: Self Evident or obvious
Dystopian: A place or state in which everything is troubling and appalling, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
Scepticism: To be sceptical of something, to question the truth.
Relativism: The Denial of absolute truths or absolute facts, and the claim that the truths and facts achieve their "truthfulness" or "factualness" only relative to other "truths" or "facts" which are themselves relative to yet other "truths" or "facts".
Pluralism: refers to a society, system of government, or organization that has different groups that keep their identities while existing with other groups or a more dominant group. Rather than just one group, subgroup, or culture dictating how things go, pluralism recognizes a larger number of competing interest groups that share the power.
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