Enmity is derivative of human potentiality, not a primary relation

Evidence

The enemy is not the perpetrator, nor is the enemy always human. Nature often turns out on the list of usual enemies, yet the enemy is never simply natural. The enemy is not primary, but derivative of the infinity of appetites, derivative of the accidents that others are (Hobbes), that they can always be. The enemy is an outgrowth plagued by potentiality, even as the impossible possibility that is the last enemy. All of this makes the enemy quite inhuman-already inhuman, all too inhuman. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 423

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the enemy via Hobbesian derivation from appetites and potentiality rather than as perpetrator or primary category.
• XREF: Ties to Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction and to Hobbes on the state of nature; also relates to the reader’s work on sacrifice and the sacrificial victim’s nebulous status. — connects to: A unified human We-subject is impossible; conflict grounds being-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1041