Kantorowicz and Straussians suppressed Schmitt’s emphasis on enmity and hostility

Evidence

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, 535

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the book’s running theme that followers domesticated Schmitt’s harsher political-theological content; parallels Anidjar’s critique of liberal readings generally. — connects to: Neoliberalism’s double-truth doctrine originated in Hayek’s covert borrowing from Schmitt — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 239