ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thought on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that connections could be made from this discussion of narrative identity to themes and issues of political concern, across a range of what is labelled as political theory. It alluded to the reasons internal to it for his exclusion of the avowedly postmodern and/or the Continental philosophers. The book describes the process of moving theory and theorists on from the suggestive but relatively undeveloped uses of narrative and narrative identity in political theory, to open up those terms for potential use in political studies. Narrative political identity draws attention to the other who is an essential partner in the formation of identity and can be taken to suggest that the argument has strong links with postmodern theory. Postmodern attention to the relationship self-other and the creation of otherness in the construction of identity could be developed for political theory.
