The enemy vanished from Western political philosophy almost from its start

Evidence

A note on terminology. First, as I attempted to access various and no doubt limited, not to say insufficient pathways that would assist and lead me toward accounts of the term “enemy” within the discourse of philosophy, political philosophy, and political science, I was surprised to find only rare and occasional, quantitatively limited discussions. I had to confront, then, something like the disappearance of the enemy, its having vanished from philosophical and political reflections almost from the start, rather than in modern times, as Carl Schmitt argues. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 76

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to Carl Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction and the whole political-theology literature that Anidjar works against throughout this theoretical spine.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 76