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Logics of Legitimacy
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Logics of Legitimacy

by Margaret Stout
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
325 pages
11h 32m
English
Routledge
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(2010) calls this atomistic individualism—the classical Cartesian, unitary subject
(Farmer 2005a) in which human identity is centered (self- contained) and isolated.
One’s sense of self is highly individual and social only in light of transactions with
other individuals. is corresponds with the social group type of individualism
(Douglas 1996) in which competition establishes social order.
However, as shown in Table7.2, because individuals are static in nature, rep-
resentatives can be legitimately chosen based on similarity of beliefs or superior
reasoning abilities. In other words, ideas represent each individua ...
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