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Ontological terror- [electronic resource : e-book] : Blackness, nihilism, and emancipation
Ontological terror- [electronic resource : e-book] : Blackness, nihilism, and emancipation
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- ISBN
- 9780822371847 (ebook)
- ISBN
- 0822371847
- ISBN
- 1478090332
- ISBN
- 9781478090335
- 저자명
- Warren, Calvin L, , 1980-
- 서명/저자
- Ontological terror - [electronic resource : e-book] : Blackness, nihilism, and emancipation / Calvin L. Warren.
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- 1 online resource
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 초록/해제
- 요약 : 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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- chimsin:568144