title: The Invisible Enemy: From Metaphor to Concept
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metadata.value: Balakleets, Natalia A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-10-09T19:05:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-10-09T19:05:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Balakleets N. A. The Invisible Enemy: From Metaphor to Concept. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 3, pp. 410–422. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.301 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.301
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44150
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metadata.value: The problem, the solution of which this article is devoted to, is related to the lack of special
  studies of the concept of “invisible enemy” in political philosophy. Existing theoretical works do not pay enough attention to this concept. Its metaphorical use fails to make explicit all
  of its potential and importance for political philosophy. As “invisible enemies” only in the
  metaphorical sense of this term can be regarded objects that have a non-anthropogenic nature
  (viruses, bacteria, sources of disease), as well as extraneous elements of the political body
  that have destructive potential. The analysis carried out revealed two semantic areas of using
  the concept of “invisible enemies”, relevant to political philosophy, and namely physical
  and symbolic invisibility. The physical invisibility, which is regarded in the works by Сarl von
  Clausewitz, Сarl Schmitt, Zygmunt Bauman, Grégoire Chamayou and others, belongs to enemies
  on the battlefield or to remote warfare. Russian philosophers look at this concept from
  an ethical perspective (Vladimir Solovyov, Lev Karsavin, Nikolai Berdyaev, Fyodor Stepun).
  The author of the article substantiates the thesis about the situational and relative nature of the
  phenomenon of the invisible enemy, associated with reaching the limit of perceptual indistinguishability.
  The physical invisibility of the enemy is caused by the appropriation of new war
  spaces in which vertical dimensions are established. Arguing with the ideas of Carl Schmitt,
  the author uses this concept not only in relation to the irregular fighters (partisans), but also in
  relation to modern combatants. The ways of acquisition of the symbolic invisibility are revealed
  in the works of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt. It is based on the transfer of
  the war actor to a different semantic field, in which it is depoliticized and re-symbolized as a
  civilian object.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: invisible enemy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: war
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: enmity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: space
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metadata.value: body
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Invisible Enemy: From Metaphor to Concept
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metadata.value: Article
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