Hegel fused Kant and Montesquieu to tie despotism to Muslims and Jews

Evidence

As I will try to show below, it would take the combination of Kant and Montesquieu in Hegel for the absolute subjection that despotism entails to be articulated under the figure of the Muslims. And the Jews. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1163

Categorization

  • SEED: An essay tracing how the abstract political concept of despotism got racially and religiously concretized onto Muslims and Jews specifically — the genealogy of a political category becoming an identity accusation.
  • XREF: connects to: Hegelian synthesis uniquely requires mutual recognition of opposites, unlike Aristotle and Kant — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1192