Left, center, and right all reject the citizen as abstract numerical unit

Evidence

This view, shared by left, center, and right, rejects the notion that the citizen is identical only with himself or herself, that he or she therefore essentially represents an abstract quantity that can be separated from his or her social identity, added up and then divided into groups that have only numerical value. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 857

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the standard liberal-contractarian picture (Rawls, the abstract individual) — connects to the reader’s interest in how institutions actually presuppose thick identity.