For Hobbes the enemy is not the other but the neighbor

Evidence

If alterity has here been fulfilled (if not abolished) by the translation of every man into the enemy, the translation of the neighbor into the enemy, if alterity begins where knowledge encounters its limit-the enemy is not the other-then every man must know that every man is the enemy. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 372

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that the enemy is the neighbor, not a distant other, is the theoretical seed for Anidjar’s later bridging of the Jew and the Arab as domestic enemies — links to the brother-enemy dynamics in the Bible and to Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction elsewhere in this batch.