Ontological terror : Blackness, nihilism, and emancipation / / Calvin L. Warren

• Autore: Warren Calvin L. <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2018; Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetto topico: Race - Political aspects; Racism; Race awareness; Black people - Race identity; Nihilism (Philosophy); Ontology
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The question of Black being -- Outlawing -- Scientific horror -- Catachrestic fantasies.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ontological terror
• ISBN: 9781478090335; 1478090332; 9780822370727; 0822370727
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910269349103321
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