The Resource Ontological terror : blackness, nihilism, and emancipation, Calvin L. Warren
Ontological terror : blackness, nihilism, and emancipation, Calvin L. Warren
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- Summary
- The author intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. The author 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 non-Being - a logic which reproduces anti-black violence and precludes any realization of equality, justice, and recognition for blacks - the author urges the removal of the human from its metaphysical pedestal and the exploration of way of existing that are not predicated on grounding in Being
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 220 pages
- Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- The free Black is nothing
- The question of Black being
- Outlawing
- Scientific horror
- Catachrestic fantasies
- Adieu to the human
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780822370871
- Label
- Ontological terror : blackness, nihilism, and emancipation
- Title
- Ontological terror
- Title remainder
- blackness, nihilism, and emancipation
- Statement of responsibility
- Calvin L. Warren
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The author intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. The author 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 non-Being - a logic which reproduces anti-black violence and precludes any realization of equality, justice, and recognition for blacks - the author urges the removal of the human from its metaphysical pedestal and the exploration of way of existing that are not predicated on grounding in Being
- Cataloging source
- NcD/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Warren, Calvin L.
- Dewey number
- 305.8
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT1523
- LC item number
- .W375 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Race
- Racism
- Race awareness
- Blacks
- Nihilism (Philosophy)
- Ontology
- Blacks
- Nihilism (Philosophy)
- Ontology
- Race awareness
- Race
- Racism
- Label
- Ontological terror : blackness, nihilism, and emancipation, Calvin L. Warren
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- The free Black is nothing -- The question of Black being -- Outlawing -- Scientific horror -- Catachrestic fantasies -- Adieu to the human -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 1949135
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 220 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822370871
- Lccn
- 2017045250
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780822370871
- (OCoLC)985682018
- Label
- Ontological terror : blackness, nihilism, and emancipation, Calvin L. Warren
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- The free Black is nothing -- The question of Black being -- Outlawing -- Scientific horror -- Catachrestic fantasies -- Adieu to the human -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 1949135
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 220 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822370871
- Lccn
- 2017045250
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780822370871
- (OCoLC)985682018
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