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Ontological Terror
- Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
Engelsk Paperback
Ontological Terror
- Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
Engelsk Paperback

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In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for thinking through the tensions between blackness and Being. He illustrates how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing. This nothingness serves as a destabilizing presence and force as well as that which whiteness defines itself against. Thus, the function of blackness as giving form to nothing presents a terrifying problem for whites: they need blacks to affirm their existence, even as they despise the nothingness they represent. By pointing out how all humanism is based on investing blackness with nonbeing-a logic which reproduces antiblack violence and precludes any realization of equality, justice, and recognition for blacks-Warren urges the removal of the human from its metaphysical pedestal and the exploration of ways of existing that are not predicated on a grounding in being.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780822370871
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0822370875
Udg. Dato:
18 maj 2018
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
18 maj 2018
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