Every identity is contingent because its constitutive outside shadows its inside.
Evidence
This point is decisive. It is because every object has inscribed in its very being something other than itself and that as a result, everything is constructed as tliffirm~. that its being cannot be conceived as pure ‘presence’ or ‘objectivity’. Since the constitutive outside is present within the inside as irs always real possibility. every identity becomes purely contingent. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 96
Categorization
- XREF: This antiessentialist contingency claim underwrites the whole agonistic project the reader is testing. — connects to: Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 363; Constitutive outside makes conflict permanent and irreducible in identity — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 142; The constitutive outside makes alterity both possible and impossible for identity (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Every identity is constituted relationally through what it excludes
#corroborates(0.95) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 371 - Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not
#corroborates(0.95) - Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously.
#corroborates(0.93) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 363 - Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself
#corroborates(0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378 - Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other
#corroborates(0.88) - The excluded other is an integral part of the city’s own identity
#exemplifies(0.87) - The constitutive outside makes alterity both possible and impossible for identity
#expands(0.86) - A city’s modern identity depends on excluding its own opposite
#exemplifies(0.85) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 515 - Identity is formed through contrast with difference
#corroborates(0.83) - Constitutive outside makes conflict permanent and irreducible in identity
#expands(0.80) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 142 - Identity can be denaturalized to reveal its crafted and contingent nature.
#corroborates(0.78) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 94 - Divine self-identity already contains differentiation within itself.
#qualifies(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 663 - Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being
#corroborates(0.75)