In Relation-ship legitimacy is wholly supplanted by contingency

Evidence

Just as early discoverers/ discovered are equal in Relation, the legitimate and its opposite appeal to each other. That is, legitimacy is totally replaced by contingency. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 350

Categorization

• DEFINE: Glissant’s Relation-concept defines itself against legitimacy, replacing the authorized (patriarchal, essentialist) with the contingent.
• XREF: connects to: Relational identity replaces legitimacy with pure contingency — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 350; Legal legitimacy is structural contingency, not shared conviction; No generalizable strategy of action in Relation can be developed — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 898 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Relational identity replaces legitimacy with pure contingency #corroborates (1.00) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 350
• No generalizable strategy of action in Relation can be developed #expands (0.80) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 898
• Chaos in Glissant’s sense is Relation, a totality whose order is perpetually in flux #expands (0.80) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 660
• Legal legitimacy is structural contingency, not shared conviction #qualifies (0.75)
• Cultural outcomes within Relation are unpredictable and resist fixed hierarchy #expands (0.75) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 827
• Abyss-tested peoples live Relation without claiming chosenness #expands (0.70) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 106