It's very difficult to gather all the threads of discussion from your blog page, but I think it's possible to construct a narrative of individualism from the various philosophers applied. Nietzsche and Freud, for example, supported individualism: Nietzsche's individualism freed from herd morality, from doing what the other guy does; Freud's individualism freed from unexamined unconscious motives, the so-called "talking cure" for our aggression. Neither of these guys seemed to advocate a social project of their ideas, however. Nietzsche knew the "last man" would be satisfied as couch potato; Freud knew that psychoanalysis was only an option for the brave and the well-to-do.
It's possible to see a narrative of individualism when Derrida (irony) posits his own "binaries" to oppose the binaries of logocentrism, and Rorty, after Dewey, brings all of theory into question. In fact, twentieth century philosophy seems divided into "talking cure guys" (Freud, even Wittgenstein), "curing philosophy" guys (Ayers, Quine), and "curing society" guys (Rawls and Rorty) with significant overlap in motives between these groups. Isn't that all a force of individualism ... especially when thinkers go out of their way to deny individualism?
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