Philosophico-juridical discourse must exclude and negate war discourse to appear neutral and lawful

Evidence

It is a discourse that is inevitably disqualified, that can and must be kept in the margins, precisely because its negation is the precondition for a true and just discourse that can at last begin to function—in the middle, between the adversaries, above their heads—as a law. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 1848

Categorization

• XREF: This exclusion-of-the-partisan-to-produce-the-neutral primes the later analysis of a universalist discourse that hides its own situatedness — relevant to critiques of neutral-sounding bureaucratic and liberal discourse.