ABSTRACT
This chapter makes the argument that Karl Marx’s critical theory provides the theoretical foundation for the development of a more adequate, historical-sociological, approach to grand narratives and critical theorising. Marx’s critical theory is based on an interweaving between what is here called a form of objective ethics and a general theory of human development that permits the maintenance of a connection between the anticipatory and the explanatory dimensions of the critical project and opens the way for the development of a more adequate answer to the problem of orientation. An answer from the perspective of which it is possible to attain a more cosmopolitan perspective on the human condition while maintaining a connection with the concrete historical experiences of embodied human beings.
