Name: Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (en Inglés)
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Author: Calvin L. Warren
ISBN: 9780822370871

portada Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Duke University Press

Autor

Calvin L. Warren

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780822370871

Categorías

Teoría literaria
Semiología

Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (en Inglés)

Calvin L. Warren (Autor) · Duke University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.