Metahistorical contexts of historical narrative and discourse

The emergence of the virtual dimension of human meaning generation brings speech and action extremely close together, which causes a kind of interference of the properties of discourse and narrative. This occurs primarily in the dimension of metahistory as a metatheoretical basis of any narratives and discursive practices. The aim of the article is to outline the content of the correlation between metahistory as a mode of historical, sociocultural and philosophical knowledge and its ontological, epistemological and ethical dimension from the point of view of narrative and discursive practices. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the attempt to structure the correlation between the concepts of metahistory, historical discourse and narrative within the framework of paradigmatically different philosophical approaches. The originality of the study lies in the substantiation of the ontologizing and transgressive functionality of metahistory as a factor of resistance to the dehumanization of the horizon of meanings of modern man. Conclusions. The concept of metahistory is relevant as a meaning-generating model for the modern philosophical picture of the world and the scientific image of reality. This concept cannot be interpreted exclusively instrumentally, since as a symbolic construction and philosopheme it can be considered as a marker of the ontologization of historical discourse and narrative. Historical discourse is a minimal form of description of the eventfulness of human experience, and the totality of these discourses forms a narrative as a superadditive whole, that is, a set of elements whose meaning and meaning go beyond the sum of the components. In turn, metahistory outlines not only the personalistic, existential dimension of the reception of reality and the verbalization of experience in discourse and narrative, but also the ontological boundaries, the scale of the human vision of reality, thus designating human transgression and transcendence as a way out of experience, semiotic codes and cognitive settings, carried out by means of language and understanding.