Calvin L Warren

Ontological Terror

Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy, illustrating how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing while showing how this nothingness destabilizes whiteness, makes blacks a target of violence, and explains why humanism has failed to achieve equality for blacks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370727
• ISBN-10: 0822370727
• Artikelnr.: 48208568

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