The Politics of Nothing: On Sovereignty

ISBN-13: 9780415509381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 118 str.

Clare Monagle; Dimitris Vardoulakis

Opis

Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, and Paulhan, 'The Politics of Nothing' asks what happens to the political when considered in the frame of the productive potential of the nothing?This book was originally published as a special issue of Culture, Theory and Critique.

Spis treści

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