The Politics of Nothing

Clare Monagle is a lecturer in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on medieval thought, and has a forthcoming monograph, Trying Ideas: Peter Lombard, Christological Nihilism and Theological Controversy, 1050-1215. Dimitris Vardoulakis is a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy (2010) and Sovereignty and Its Other (forthcoming). He is also the editor of Spinoza Now (2011).

1. Introduction: The Negativity of Sovereignty, Now Clare Monagle and Dimitris Vardoulakis 2. A Sovereign Act of Negation: Schmitt’s Political Theology and its Ideal Medievalism Clare Monagle 3. Enmity and Culture: The Rhetoric of Political Theology and the Exception in Carl Schmitt Jürgen Fohrmann 4. The Sovereign Without Domain: Georges Bataille and the Ethics of Nothing Charles Barbour 5. The Ends of Stasis: Spinoza as a Reader of Agamben Dimitris Vardoulakis 6. The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothing? Warren Montag 7. Naming the Nothing: Nancy and Blanchot on Community Ian James 8. Next to Nothing: Jean Paulhan’s Gamble Anna-Louise Milne