The Politics of Nothing: On Sovereignty

Clare Monagle · Dimitris Vardoulakis

2013년 10월 · Routledge

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This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what happens to the political when considered in the frame of the productive potential of the nothing? The answers are framed in terms of the deep intellectual histories at our disposal for considering these fundamental questions, carving out trajectories inspired by, for example, Peter Lombard, Shakespeare and Spinoza. This book offers a series of sensitive and creative reflections that suggest the possibilities offered by thinking through sovereignty via the frame of nihilism.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Culture, Theory and Critique.

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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).