The Politics of Nothing

Index

Abelard, P. 14

Acéphale 81–83

action 47

Agamben, G. 4, 34, 51–61; critique 57

Alberigo, J. 12

Althusser, L. 63–76; encounter 69; philosophy 67, 73–75

Arendt, H. 47–48

atoms 70

Barbour, C. 3, 37–48

baroque 24–25

Bartelsen, J. 2

Bataille, G. 1, 3, 37, 37–48, 80–81; autobiographical note 44; vs. Schmitt, C. 37–43

Bauman, Z. 52

Beckett, S. 76

Benjamin, W. 21, 22, 24–26, 73

Between Eroticism and General Economy (Habermas) 42

biopolitics 53

Blanchot, M.: vs. Nancy, J.-L. 77–92; withdrawal 82

Bodin, J. 3

Boethius 14

Brown, W. 2–3

Bush, G.W. 1

Butler, J. 102–103

capitalism 69

Catholic Church 10

chance 70

Chare, N. 58

Christ 13–15

Christendom 8–9, 12

Christological Nihilist/Nichilianistae 15, 17

civil society 38

civil war 52, 78

Claudel, P. 105

communal existence 91

community 77–92; absence 82; global 78–79; sacrificial 81; unworking 85–86

compearance 87

The Concept of the Political 29

Council of Chalcedon (451AD) 14

Daniel 63, 73

Däubler, T. 32

decontextualisation 56

Deleuze, G. 74

depoliticization 9

Derrida, J. 5, 11–12, 18, 29, 44–45, 69–72

destiny 72

disease 61

Dühring, E. 31

Earl of Essex 22

Epicurus 64, 66, 70

Ethics II (Spinoza) 66

ethics of nothing 46–47

ethnography 96

Être singulier pluriel (Nancy) 88

exception 8, 34, 40–41, 58; transgression 37–38

experience: inner 44

fascism 38–39, 42

Fohrmann, J. 4, 21–36

Foucault, M. 73

From Restricted to General Economy (Derrida) 45

Gemerchak, C. 46–47

Geneva Convention 2

German Tragic Drama (Benjamin) 22

Germany 26, 27

Geulen, E. 51–52

Gide, A. 97–98

globalisation 78–79

God 13

grammar 58

Gris, J. 107

Habermas, J. 42; discourse ethics 46

Hamlet and Hecuba (Schmitt) 22

Hamlet (Shakespeare) 22–23, 27; tragedy 27

hate speech 102–103

Hebrew Grammar (Spinoza) 56, 58

Hecuba 23–24

Hegel, G.W.F. 72, 88–90; master 45

Hegel (Nancy) 88

Hegelianism 88

Heidegger, M. 70–71, 80, 83, 85, 90

history 33; life 24–25

Hobbes, T. 52, 65, 68; state of nature 68

Huntington, S. 78

Hyppolite 72

immanence 79–80; absolute 55

infusion of Grace 12

Innocent III 12

Islamic fundamentalism 2, 5n

Italy 68

Jacobi, F.H. 3

James, I. 3, 77–92

James-I 22

Jay, M. 39

Jew 31

The Jewish Question as a Racial, Moral, and Cultural Question (Dühring) 31

Joachim of Fiore 15–16

Jouhandeau, M. 98

Kalyvas, A. 57

La Communauté affrontée (Nancy) 77–81, 83–84, 91, 92

La Communauté désoeuvrée (Nancy) 77–78, 80, 84–87

La Communauté inavouable (Blanchot) 77, 80–82, 84–85, 90, 91

La Comparution (Nancy) 87

La Nouvelle Revue Française 96

La Peinture cubiste 98

La Table Ronde (Paulhan) 97

L’abeille (Paulhan) 95, 98–99

Lacan, J. 48

Laclau, E. 4

language 13

Lateran IV Council (1215) 8, 11–12, 13, 16–18; constitutions 11; function 11

law 42; ecstasies 39–41

Left Fascism (Wolin) 42

Les Fleurs de Tarbes (Paulhan) 95, 97, 101–103, 107

Les Nouveaux Cahiers (Paulhan) 102

Letter aux Directeurs de la Résistance (Paulhan) 99, 101

Levinas, E. 82

liberalism 10

L’Inquiétude du négatif (Nancy) 88–89

Locke, J. 68

Lombard, P. 8, 13–17

Löwith, K. 33

Lucretius 64, 70, 74

lukewarm 28

McCormick, J.P. 9

Macherey, P. 65, 66

Machiavelli, N. 65, 67–68

Marion, J.-L. 13

Marquard, O. 34

Marx, K. 68–69

materialism of the encounter 64–65; chronology 64–65; history 64; origins 64

Matheron, F. 63, 65, 70

Matthew 16:18 12

Mersenne, M. 65

Mesnard, P. 57

middle ages 7, 11

Milne, A.-L. 3, 95–109

modernity 9–10

Monagle, C. 4, 7–18; and Vardoulakis, D. 1–5

Montag, W. 4, 63–76

Mouffe, C. 10

Muselmann 53–57

My Chances (Derrida) 70

Nancy, J.-L. 37, 41; vs. Blanchot, M. 77–92

negative theology 11–13

negativity 88–89

nihilism 3, 15, 17; dialectic 3

nothingness 72–73, 95–109; next to 108–109

occasionalism 29–30; romantic 29–30

Of Goods and Things (Gemerchack) 46

On Nietzsche (Bataille) 43

papacy 8

parallelism 66

Paulhan, J. 3, 5, 95–109; abstraction 104; behaviour 100; blindness 108; career 96; commonplace 101–102, 107; cubism 103–107; expressions 108–109; language 101; marginalisation 98; mind and matter 106; newspapers 100; openness 101; painting 106–107; PhD 96; post-war work 105; récits 96; space 106; teacher 96; war 98–100; work 97, 100–101

The Piccolo Teatro (Althusser) 75

political theology 7, 26, 28–36, 40; circulation 34; de-theologised 34; model 7; reality 32

Political Theology (Schmitt) 40

politics 51; passive 53–54; responsible 61

al-Qaeda 2

rain 66, 70

Revelations 28

Riley, D. 38, 48

Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Schmitt) 9–10

romanticism 28–29, 38

Rose, G. 3

Rousseau, J.-J. 67, 68

Roy, O. 2

sacred 35

Sartre, J.-P. 97

scepticism 72

Schmitt, C. 7–18, 21, 26–36, 37; vs. Bataille, G. 37–43

self-negation 41

Sententiae (Lombard) 14

September-11 (post) 1–2

Shakespeare, W. 22

Shapiro, G. 99

small nothings 95

society: civil 38

sovereignty 1–3, 37–48; claims 1; knowledge 41; modern understanding 2; nothing 1–3, 41, 85; reader 58–61; revalorization 39; state of emergency 21–28