metahistory

Noun

metahistory (countable and uncountable, plural metahistories)

1. 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...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