TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warren,Calvin L.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Ontological Terror : : Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation / 
SN  - 9780822371847
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Racism against Black people
KW  - fast
KW  - Racism
KW  - Race
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Race awareness
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Nihilism (Philosophy)
KW  - Black people
KW  - Race identity
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Black Studies (Global)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography
KW  - bicssc
KW  - ontologies (vocabularies)
KW  - aat
KW  - nihilism
KW  - Ontologie
KW  - Nihilisme
KW  - Conscience de race
KW  - Racisme
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - The question of Black being -- Outlawing -- Scientific horror -- Catachrestic fantasies; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/61312/
ER  -