Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, And Emancipation - 9780822370871

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.

• | Author: Calvin L. Warren
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: May 18, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0822370875
• | ISBN-13: 9780822370871