The subject has been experiencing something of a comeback, philosophically speaking, in the past decade or so. After being banished by the structuralists in the 1960s to the dustbin of history, one now sees frequent references, even within the most current Continental literature, to the need to recuperate a workable and meaningful notion of the subject. The subject's rise and fall is not unrelated to the position Nietzsche occupies within this Continental literature; and so it is somewhat ironic that the Übermensch, which is generally regarded to be Nietzsche's positive notion of a subject, has fallen on hard times in the recent Nietzsche literature.