Beyond Postmodern Politics

Through a detailed examination of the work of Lyotard, Rorty and Foucault, this text claims that postmodern politics denies the possibility of selves and community. The author argues that this denial does not allow the creation of a politics of difference, where the marginalized have a voice and differences between individuals and groups are accepted. She proposes a theory in which the subject is understood as a subject-in-the-community, while accepting that we are constructed by different communities.