Contents

Citation Information

Notes on Contributors

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 and (Translated by Dimitris Vardoulakis)

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

Index