Rosenzweig held that loving one’s neighbor collapses religion-politics boundaries

Evidence

Yet to maintain this distinction-to abide by the commandment to love one’s neighbor-undoes another crucial distinction, that between religion and politics. More precisely, for Rosenzweig, because they love their neighbors, Christians cannot distinguish between religious and political wars. On the other hand, because they in turn abolish the distinction between self and other, because they love the neighbor without mediation ( unmit- … Jews, in other words, know nothing of war. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 457

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general claim in the book’s framework that Jews stand outside history — an idea echoed in later discussions of Jewish ahistoricity and in the tension with the earlier treatment of Islam in prior chapters.