Identity, Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox |
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Page xiv - An identity is established in relation to a series of differences that have become socially recognized. These differences are essential to its being. If they did not coexist as differences, it would not exist in its distinctness and solidity. Entrenched in this Indispensable relation is a second set of tendencies.