Rosenzweig’s war theory is bound up with the love of enemy

Evidence

I say “more importantly” because consistently underlying Rosenzweig’s discussion of war, one finds a preoccupation with the love of neighbor and thus-following Jesus’ famous dictum-the love of the enemy. To the extent that one can read in the Star a theory of war-and Rosenzweig claimed precisely that-the question I want to ask here is a simple one: What is the theologico-political dimension within which war inscribes itself? — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 454

Categorization

• XREF: The neighbor/enemy theological pairing is central to how the book’s spine articulates whom one must love and whom one may hate.