Schmitt distinguishes the political enemy from private adversaries

Evidence

The enemy, then, is not the other. And, as Schmitt puts it, “the enemy is not merely any competitor or just any partner of a conflict in general. He is also not the private adversary whom one hates.” Rather, the enemy is ethical life as another life, another “living totality” that ethical life must subsequently posit “as alien and to be negated.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 409

Categorization

• DEFINE: Schmitt’s core distinction between public political enemy and private personal adversary.
• XREF: Resonates with the book’s broader thesis on the Jew/Arab as politically constituted enemies.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 409