Theoretical heritage, the return of Humanism and the apparatus (dispositif) of debt

Abstract

This article interprets «Who comes after the subject» (1991) as a philosophical reply to the restoration of a democratic and (neo)liberal Humanism which claimed to have put an end to the theoretical crisis of the sixties and seventies and which has often worked as an obturating mechanism of the theoretical heritage of those years. This humanist discourse, as the text alludes to, is connected to the currently dominant debt apparatus (dispositif) and, consequently, to the new indebted subjectivities.