Hegel anticipated Foucault in seeing suppression as productive of the enemy

Evidence

“Modern wars,” Hegel writes, “are therefore humanely waged, and person is not set over against person in hatred. At most, personal enmities appear in the vanguard, but in the main body of the army hostility is something vague and gives place to each side’s respect for the duty of the other.” Here, the enemy is human, and though he may not be a moral person, the enemy is due respect. Yet there remains some obscurity as to what this respect entails if the enemy is not personal. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 404 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Foucault theorized the enemy without giving it a history — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 810; Hegel held modern war removes personal hatred from enmity — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 404; Hegel defines the enemy as a self-posited ethical difference to be negated — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 406

Broader Connections

• Hegel held modern war removes personal hatred from enmity #complicates (0.74) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 404