Abstract
Reading Communist Manifesto today, it is impossible not to be struck by confidence with which it conceptualises The positive energy of this bold grand narrative stands in such stark contrast to negative and jaded mentality of our times, which conceives of grand narratives only to tell us that there can be none. Such talk as there is of history today is more likely to be of the end of history. There are three senses in which references to end of history feature in contemporary debates: apocalyptic prediction, postmodernist pronouncement and capitalist triumphalism. This paper addresses crisis of historicity in our time in relation to these positions and asks what is it about our age that produces them. It explores widespread rejection of grand narratives, as well as grand narratives, which nevertheless persist, implicit and explicit, right and left. It looks at position of marxism in 1990s, counterposing it to postmarxism and postmodernism in particular on question of grand narratives. It calls for resistance to detotalising pressures of age and revival of a totalising (as opposed to totalised) philosophy of
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