Calvin L. Warren: Ontological Terror

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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 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.

Über den Autor

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780822370871
ISBN-10:	0822370875
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Warren, Calvin L.
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Calvin L. Warren
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.05.2018
Gewicht:	0,346 kg

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