Contents
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