Status Updates From The Politics of Friendship

I don't necessarily appreciate what he did with this book even though I'm quote farming it every 10 pages where he mentions that meaning is deferred

from Plato to Montaigne, Aristotle to Kant, Cicero to Hegel, the great philosophical and canonical discourses on friendship will have explicitly tied the friend-brother to virtue and justice, to moral reason and political reason. The principal question would rightly concern the hegemony of a philosophical canon in this domain: how has it prevailed?

Without an enemy, I go mad, I can no longer think, I become powerless to think myself, to pronounce ‘cogito, ergo sum’. For that I must have an evil genius, a spiritus malignas, a deceitful spirit. Did not Schmitt allude to this in his cell? Without this absolute hostility, the ‘I’ loses reason, and the possibility of being posed, of posing or of opposing the object in front of it;

Above all, far from being satisfied with the opposition on which Schmitt relies so heavily, the Republic indeed prescribes its erasure.

There is little room for laughter in Heidegger.