The Singularity of Self in the Later Foucault: Reconsidering the End(s) of Poststructuralist Thought
Introduction Recent years have seen influential ‘left’ theorists such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj ﾎiﾞek1 join with earlier ‘right’ theorists of normativity to argue that poststructuralism’s particular form of privileging the other and difference leads to the “dispersion” of the self as ethical agent,2 as well as to resignation and cynicism concerning politics and the…