Antagonism can manifest as agonism between friendly enemies sharing symbolic space

Evidence

A first step in my argumentation is to assen that the friend/enemy opposition is not the only form that antagonism can take and that it can manifest itself in another way. This is why I propose to distinguish betwccn two forms of antagonism. antagonism proper - which takes place between enemies. that is, persons who have no common symbolic space - and what I call ‘agonism’. which is a different mode of manifestation of antagonism because it involves a relation not betwccn enemies but between ‘adversaries’. adversaries being defined in a paradoxical way as ‘friendly enemies’. that is, persons who are friends because they share a common symbolic space but also enemies because they want to organize this common symbolic space in a different way. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 67

Categorization

• DEFINE: The core definition distinguishing antagonism proper (no common symbolic space) from agonism between adversaries who share that space — central to the reader’s entire project.
• DEEPTHINKING: The paradoxical ‘friendly enemies’ category is the theoretical hinge: it preserves conflict while establishing common ground — exactly the mechanism the reader wants to test for a non-exclusionary pluralist ‘we’.
• XREF: connects to: Antagonism is an ever-present possibility inherent to collective identity formation — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 65; The friend-enemy distinction dissolves only through mutual recognition within shared space; Enemy and friend categories are mutually constructed within identity — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 709 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Democratic politics transforms antagonism between enemies into agonism between adversaries #expands (0.95) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 461
• Intense intergroup conflict overrides interpersonal friendships between opponents #complicates (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2677
• Sharing a beloved superordinate turns co-subjects into intensified mutual enemies via jealousy #complicates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 337
• Adversaries in indeterminate games mutually construct the norms that govern their conflict #exemplifies (0.78) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 379
• Enemy and friend categories are mutually constructed within identity #expands (0.76) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 709
• The friend-enemy distinction dissolves only through mutual recognition within shared space #qualifies (0.74)
• Antagonism is an ever-present possibility inherent to collective identity formation #corroborates (0.72) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 65
• Group identity formation requires the existence of enemies to define the self against #corroborates (0.71) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 33