Petar Bojanić | Unjust Enemy in Kant

Unjust Enemy in Kant
The lecture once more reconstructs the perennially fashionable “figure” within public and international law, as well as a theologized construction: an evil-doer who must be destroyed in the conflict or war. The “unjust enemy,” always mutually recognized and often indicated as the other side in every conflict, should satisfy certain conditions for them to be linked to “evil” and “the alliance of all against evil,” in the production of world peace and infinite restraint from war. By classifying various forms of hostile protocols, my intention is to show the substantive incompleteness and weakness of the term “enemy,” and thus the impossibility and myth of a symmetric use of force.
Petar Bojanić is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He is also a founding Director of the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka, and President of the Institute for Democratic Engagement Southeast Europe in Belgrade. Petar began his academic journey investigating the themes of war, violence, and institutional dynamics under the guidance of Jacques Derrida and Etienne Balibar. He developed his theoretical work at esteemed institutions, such as Cornell, Birkbeck, and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg. He was Principal Investigator on a project examining the ethics of war in Orthodox Christianity and the eastern European tradition at the University of Yekaterinburg until the war in Ukraine. Demand for Petar’s expertise has resulted in him being visiting professor at renowned universities worldwide, including in Aberdeen, Bologna, London, Turin, and Rome. Petar’s research on war, ethics, violence, and Jewish political theory has been profoundly shaped by his exploration of institutions and counter-institutions, contributing significantly to the field of violence studies.
The international philosophical conference War and Peace After Kant (6-9 November 2024, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana) was organized by Humboldt University, University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Arts , Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade and Goethe Institute Ljubljana. The conference was carried out as part of the project Common Between Substance and Subject, which is financed by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency.
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