Full Idea
One cannot even have the social status of 'being an individual' unless it has been conferred on one by a communal performative belief.
Gist of Idea
To be considered 'an individual' is performed by a society
Source
Martin Kusch (Knowledge by Agreement [2002], Ch.11)
Book Reference
Kusch,Martin: 'Knowledge by Agreement' [OUP 2004], p.152
A Reaction
This sounds crazy until you think of the mentality of a tenth generation slave in a fully slave-owning society.