POSTMODERN PLURALISM AND OUR SELVES

In this paper I examine postmodern thinking about 'the inner', that is , about 'mind' and related notions. This is part of an ongoing project aimed at retelling the story about who we are and how we cope. Retell ing this story seems to be a perennial concern, but one which is alway s more urgent 'now'. In this, the last few years of the century, how t o think and talk about ourselves is, at best, uncertain and obscure. I n this paper I offer one direction to pursue in getting us out of the trouble we are in: rethinking the importance of our selves, that is, t hat core of (perhaps ever-changing) commitments and identifications wh ich allow us to act and come forward as moral and legal agents.