Ontological Terror : Blackness, Nihilism and Emancipation

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Tác giả: Calvin L. Warren

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0822370727

ISBN-13: 978-0822370871

ISBN-13: 978-0822371847

Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.8 Ethnic and national groups

Thông tin xuất bản: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (233 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 171082

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.
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