Knowledge of others serves confrontation as much as coexistence

Evidence

Although knowing and understanding are often considered paths to peaceful coexistence, it is easy enough to recognize that they are also conditions of enmity, confrontation, and war. “To know the Other,” writes Guy Brossollet, is the “indispensable method toward the ability to confront him … the inquiry is immense … To know the Other, of course, but also to know others, neighbors, allies, friends and neutrals, the decisions and attitudes of whom interfere with ours, and diminish, in the very midst of alliances, our freedom of action” (Brossollet, Essai sur Ia non-bataille, 13). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1009 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Being-for-others generates perpetual conflict as each self objectifies the other — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1462; Cooperation requires common knowledge of mutual preferences, not just shared preferences — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 105; Knowledge of the other is as much a precondition of enmity as of peace — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 1009 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Knowledge of the other is as much a precondition of enmity as of peace #corroborates (0.97) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1009