Kantorowicz and Straussians distorted Schmitt by suppressing his emphasis on enmity.

Evidence

Yet to privilege law and love would run the risk of ignoring enmity, and more specifically the dissociative dimension with which we began. It would run the risk of ignoring the narrative of a “violent separation of the King’s Two Bodies” as it occurs in Richard II and elsewhere. Schmitt’s discreet followers (Kantorowicz, and Straussians such as Bloom) may have placed more emphasis on love and friendship, but in so doing, they occluded more than their relationship to Schmitt. They also ignored that Schmitt had underscored the importance of friendship, as well as that of enmity and hostility. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 534

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: the political-theology tradition actively buried its own founding emphasis on enmity in favor of love and friendship — a disciplinary repression mirroring the book’s larger thesis.