{"product_id":"at-the-margins-of-nihilism-john-e-drabinski-9781531512378","title":"At the Margins of Nihilism: Deconstruction and Social Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe multi-century event of enslavement and colonialism changed the cultural and political imagination of the Atlantic world. We still live and work in the horizon of that event. It was an event that placed a violent Manichean structure of antiblackness at the foundation of our shared world. What kinds of life are possible in nihilistic, antiblack worlds of social death? Is it possible to imagine life outside the reach of those worlds? What decolonial methods help us understand that form of life in relation to expressive cultures of resistance and refusal? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the Margins of Nihilism \u003c\/i\u003edevelops a theoretical frame through a comparative reading of Jacques Derrida and Orlando Patterson. Reading between deconstruction and social death, Drabinski describes a notion of life as interstitial, situated outside the play of life and death in systems of antiblackness. This notion of life has broad epistemological, existential, and ontological implications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from a diverse set of sources including Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Gloria Anzaldúa, and others, \u003ci\u003eAt the Margins of Nihilism\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the nihilisms of Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon, James Baldwin, and contemporary afropessimism operate as a closed system. Each system is opened by vernacular forms of life and practices of refusal. Those forms and practices speak to the power and significance of life that persists across centuries of antiblack culture, social life, and political hegemony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John E. Drabinski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531512372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531512378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"John E. Drabinski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136471154943,"sku":"9781531512378","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e387b37-0a0b-4124-8f7e-7a5ac25a8da2.jpg?v=1755023443","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/at-the-margins-of-nihilism-john-e-drabinski-9781531512378","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}