Over against general laws, postmodern thought celebrates specific names. It would seem that the stress on “names” would secure both the agents in the struggle for justice and subjects in need of protection against injustice. In the postmodern view, however, a “name” is not a “person” in the sense of an agent with a stable identity. As a bearer of a proper name, an individual is “itself also a complex configuration of still further events, multiplicity or constellation unto itself. . . . The individual is a perspective, the perspective of the here, now, at this point” (Caputo 1993, 95).
