The enemy-concept fuses agency and passivity, making enmity politically explosive

Evidence

32. Here emerges, perhaps, what can be called, after Malabou, the “plasticity” of the enemy as the “originary unity of agency and passivity, of spontaneity and of receptivity” (Malabou, L’avenir de Hegel, 249). The enemy, one could say, is “plastic”-that is to say also, explosive. It would demand therefore what Malabou refers to as an “explosive reading.” The necessity of a distinction between activity and passivity is, of course, a political question. Kant, for example considers it to be constitutive of the political concept of citizen. Finding its point of departure in the “quality” of free will, Kant writes that this quality “requires a distinction between active and passive citizens” (Kant, Metaphysics of Morals, §46, §92). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 856 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

32. Here emerges, perhaps, what can be called, after Malabou, the “plasticity” of the enemy as the “originary unity of agency and passivity, of spontaneity and of receptivity” (Malabou, L’avenir de Hegel, 249). The enemy, one could say, is “plastic”-that is to say also, explosive. It would demand therefore what Malabou refers to as an “explosive reading.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 856 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The enemy concept fuses agency and passivity in a plastic unity — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 856; The enemy is plastic, an unstable unity of agency and passivity — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 856; Enemy objects shift along axes of interiority and exteriority. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 448 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The enemy concept fuses agency and passivity in a plastic unity #corroborates (1.00) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 856
• The enemy is plastic, an unstable unity of agency and passivity #corroborates (1.00) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 856