Hegel joined Kant and Montesquieu in linking Islam and Judaism to submission

Evidence

Comparing the incomparable, as well, but bringing the three monotheistic religions together with the question of subjection and “faithful resignation,” was Montesquieu’s great admirer, the “Christian,” as opposed to “Kant the Jew,” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegelian comparisons, and those in particular, are, of course, numerous and complex (moreover, they obviously do not exhaust what Hegel has to say on religion and on other religions). To the extent that he does compare Islam and Judaism in the context of a thought of”faithful resignation,” however, Hegel, like both Kant and Montesquieu, renews the question of subjection and of the Jew, the Arab. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 631

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s standing thread on how canonical European philosophers constructed Judaism and Islam as religions of servitude; could tie to Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the category of ‘fear added to fear.‘

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• Hegel characterized Islam as enthusiasm become fanaticism, religion fused with terror (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel linked Islam’s so-called fanaticism to terror and to love (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel’s philosophy fixed the modern image of Muslims as fatalistic and purposeless (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel classified Islam’s universalism as a crude, spiritless drive toward world dominion. (similarity 0.78)
• Hegel invented the figure of the Muslim as Europe’s enemy (similarity 0.78)