ABSTRACT
We live in a time of skepticism concerning the existence of the self. While postmodernism has no unified body of theory, its one unanimous claim is the demise of the subject. Postmodernism has propitiously criticized the pervasive historical, gendered, and ethnocentric character of our understanding of the world, but it has done so at the expense of displacing key modern philosophical tenets that celebrate the nature of subjectivity, consciousness, and the teleology of the will. Consequently, the notions of freedom, autonomy, and authentic choice that comprise the fundamental activities of personal agency are altogether dismantled.
