Communities are founded on a chain of filiation that legitimacy must sustain

Evidence

Engendering tragedl’, it is illegitimacy that threatens the comrnunity bl’ leading toward its dissolution. Tragic action, the art of opacitl’ and disclosure, resolves this dissolution in the quest for legitimacl’ and its reestablishment. This same quest, in ml’ th and epic, guaranteed the strict succession through which everl’ communitl’ linked itself to the first act of Creation. If legitirnacl’ is ruptured, the chain of filiation is no longer meaningful, and the community wanders the world, no longer able to lal’ claim to any primordial necessity. Tragic action absorbs this unbalance. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 311

Categorization

• DEFINE: Glissant uses ‘filiation’ vs ‘Relation’ as a core axis — filiation is the closed, root-based identity model, which the reader is comparing with strategic essentialism’s logic.
• XREF: connects to: Filiative myth subsumes the individual as a link in the community’s chain — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 282; Law creates legitimacy structurally by formatting power-holders into chains of mutual recourse — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 674; Political legitimacy is an ongoing project of constructing and repairing trust (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Political legitimacy is an ongoing project of constructing and repairing trust #expands (0.80)
• Law creates legitimacy structurally by formatting power-holders into chains of mutual recourse #expands (0.78) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 674
• Legitimacy arises from inclusion plus deliberation filtered through reasons #expands (0.78) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 16
• Legitimacy, built through contestatory democracy, generates civic virtue. #expands (0.74)
• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy #corroborates (0.72)