The Politics of Nothing: On Sovereignty - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138946613 ISBN 13: 9781138946613

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138946613
• ISBN 13: 9781138946613
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Monagle Clare