Ontological Terror
€ 30,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780822370871 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Calvin L. Warren |
| Editora | Duke University Press |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 232 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,360 |
| Data de Publicação | 18/05/2018 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 29,15 |
| Imposto | € 1,75 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 30,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 2 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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.