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Warren Calvin L. <1980-> |
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Titolo |
Ontological terror : Blackness, nihilism, and emancipation / / Calvin L. Warren |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2018 |
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Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018 |
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ISBN |
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9781478090335 |
1478090332 |
9780822370727 |
0822370727 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Race - Political aspects |
Racism |
Race awareness |
Black people - Race identity |
Nihilism (Philosophy) |
Ontology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The question of Black being -- Outlawing -- Scientific horror -- Catachrestic fantasies. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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