Foucault theorized the enemy without giving it a history

Evidence

Distinct adversaries, at times even enemies (“ennemi de classe” and “ennemi de race,” 72; “sauvage” or “barbare,” 173-75, political versus “biological” enemies, 228), are at the center of Foucault’s teaching in this course (see, for example, 44, 49, 53, 67, 85, 159). Foucault also raises the possibility, already known from medieval political thought, that the sovereign may be an enemy (51). Yet there is no history of the enemy, no discursive account of the mechanism whereby the enemy in its specificity is described, produced, or rendered operative. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 810

Categorization

• XREF: Anidjar positions his own project as supplying the missing history of the enemy that Foucault gestured toward.