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The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era: Four Evolving Metaparadigms, 1648 to Present

The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era: Four Evolving Metaparadigms, 1648 to Present

Blum, Mark E.

Paperback

Series: Anthem Thresholds and Transformations, Book 1

General ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1839994762
ISBN13: 9781839994760
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

When one organizes events over periods of years and gives them an appellation such as Modernism, the organization of facts is guided by concepts and values discerned throughout these periods, comparable facts sufficient to call it an era, or an epoch, or other terms that insist on the shared aspects of those years, regardless of differences seen as well over the span considered. One can call such an effort a metahistory, in that what is tracked is not merely human events that are political, economic, ideological, sociological, or other disciplinary descriptors, but an overview that critically links all the years under consideration. Even more, to have a metahistory is to discern how the people of eras, epochs, or the other organizational labels, thought. Human history is generated by choices, choices informed by intuitions and more intentional understandings. One of the aspects the book dwells upon in this metahistory of Modernism is the presence of perspective, how one sees in a time what is there to be addressed and dealt with. Perspectives can be poorly informed or in their very nature not adequate for a sufficient knowledge of what is addressed, even as one must as a human judge what faces one. To discern from evidence how one's perspective configures an event is the meta of metahistory. Modernism, the epoch from 1648 to the Present, can be described among its tenets as a period where the notion of objectivity has been developed. This has occurred in every field of the emergent arts and sciences in these years. Post-modernism, as will be addressed, is a more critical modernism that has brought to light the idea of multiple perspectives of objectivity as a univocal perspective of 'objectivity'. Other modernist ideas have expanded in all fields and the ideas of what is human consciousness, epistemologies of both a reflective and a pre-reflective consciousness (called by some the 'unconscious') have emerged in art, aesthetics, psychology, philosophy, the social sciences, as well as the neurosciences To have meta knowledge is this comprehension of the scope and benefits, yet limitations, of one's perspective and that of others of a time. Only a historian interested in such perspectives can be called a metahistorian.

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