@article{Corsa_2018, title={Grand Narratives, Metamodernism, and Global Ethics}, volume={14}, url={https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/726}, abstractNote={<span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: ";Times New Roman";,serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Some philosophers contend that to effectively address problems such our global environmental crisis, humans must collectively embrace a polyphonic, environmentalist grand narrative, very different from the narratives accepted by modernists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Cultural theorists who write about metamodernism likewise discuss the recent return to a belief in narratives, and contend that our society’s current approach to narratives is very different from that of the modernists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>In this paper, I articulate these philosophers’ and cultural theorists’ positions, and I highlight and explore interconnections between them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Additionally, I argue that if the authors I discuss are correct, then we morally <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ought </em>to embrace a metamodernist, polyphonic, environmental grand narrative, in order to effectively address an array of global crises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Such a grand narrative is a necessary ingredient of an adequate global ethics.</span>}, number={3}, journal={Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy}, author={Corsa, Andrew J.}, year={2018}, month={Dec.}, pages={241–272} }