The Fate of the SelfMuch recent critical theory has dismissed or failed to take seriously the question of the self. French theoristssuch as Derrida, Barthes, Benveniste, Foucault, Lacan, and Lvi Strausshave in various ways proclaimed the death of the subject, often turning to German intellectual tradition to authorize their views. Stanley Corngolds heralded book, The Fate of the Self, published for the first time in paperback with a spirited new preface, appears at a