Introduction: The negativity of sovereignty, now / Clare Monagle and Dimitris Vardoulakis -- A sovereign act of negation: Schmitt's political theology and its ideal medievalism / Clare Monagle -- Enmity and culture: the rhetoric of political theology and the exception in Carl Schmitt / Jürgen Fohrmann and (translated by Dimnitris Vardoulakis) -- The sovereign without domain: Georges Bataille and the ethics of nothing / Charles Barbour -- The ends of Stasis: Spinoza as a reader of Agamben / Dimitris Vardoulakis -- The late Althusser: materialism of the encounter or philosophy of nothing? / Warren Montag -- Naming the nothing: Nancy and Blanchot on community / Ian James -- Next to nothing: Jean Paulhan's gamble / Anna-Louise Milne

1. Nihilism
2. Political theology
3. Sovereignty