The generally accepted poststructural wisdom in the United States was that a shift had taken place from the claim that truth could be grounded in the notion of an autonomous subject (as a given) to a notion that the subject was constituted by discourses and/or practices. But that shift, it is now usually argued (as noted above), was also in the process of reversal, at least in part, by the mid-eighties. My argument is that the autonmoussubject was never relinquished, not even during the era of the greatestpoststructural infiuence. And further, that such a continual “return” canbe conceived in terms of the Sophist theory, that is, relating Subject to subject.