ABSTRACT
The Cartesian subject has seemed, to many contemporary theorists, the last (and first) bastion of the current political order. It has been held responsible for the atrocities of imperialism, the subjugation of women and the psychological illnesses of Western individuals.1 Post-colonial critics and feminist critics have catalogued the ways the Enlightenment individual founded itself at the expense of others, especially Third World populations and women. Contemporary theorists are both challenging this norm’s claim to exhaustively represent subjects and attempting to reconstruct this subject, where it has hardened into reality, to propose more responsive forms of epistemological and social relation.
