German philosopher Eric Voegelin interprets as “the structure of an In-Between… the tension between life and death, immortality and mortality, perfection and imperfection, time and timelessness, between order and disorder, truth and untruth, sense and senselessness of existence.” But more generally, the Greek prefix “meta” is also appropriate because it simultaneously can mean with/among, between, or after. In the case of metamodern discourse, there is, as Vermeulen and Akkeran explain, an oscillation among, between, and beyond “a modern enthusiasm and postmodern irony, between hope and melancholy, between naivete ́and knowingness, empathy and apathy, unity and plurality, totality and fragmentation, purity and ambiguity,” although the prevailing sentiment is usually one of sincerity