Warren Calvin L. Warren

Ontological Terror (eBook, PDF)

Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation

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Produktbeschreibung

In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "e;Negro question"e; 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822371847
• Artikelnr.: 54686094

Autorenporträt

Calvin L. Warren is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. The Free Black Is Nothing  1
1. The Question of Black Being  26
2. Outlawing  62
3. Scientific Horror  110
4. Catachrestic Fantasies  143
Coda. Adieu to the Human  169
Notes  173
Bibliography  201
Index  211