Ontological Terror - Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation Warren Calvin L. Paperback
Ontological Terror - Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation Warren Calvin L. Paperback In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm…
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Ontological Terror - Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation Warren Calvin L. Paperback
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for thinking through the tensions between blackness and Being. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being.
This nothingness serves as a destabilizing presence and force as well as that which whiteness defines itself against. He illustrates how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing. 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 non-Being--a logic which reproduces anti-black violence and precludes any realization of