This short little book is an excellent introduction to the concept of metanarratives and their meaning.  The booklet explores nine different thinkers who present us with nine varieties of metanarratives.  Thinkers featured are Thomas Nagel, Jean-François Lyotard, Alasdair MacIntyre, Martin Heidegger, G.E.M. Anscombe, Charles Taylor, Immanuel Kant, J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Stein.