Ontological terror : blackness, nihilism, and emancipation
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Ontological terror : blackness, nihilism, and emancipation
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- Ontological terror : blackness, nihilism, and emancipation
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- 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
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- NcD/DLC
- Dewey number
- 305.8
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT1523
- LC item number
- .W375 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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