{"product_id":"ontological-terror-calvin-l-warren-9780822370727","title":"Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation","description":"In \u003ci\u003eOntological Terror\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Calvin L. Warren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822370727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822370727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Calvin L. Warren","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926542909695,"sku":"9780822370727","price":102.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ad802563-fad4-44dd-8d05-4ae216d4f5d5.jpg?v=1681083652","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ontological-terror-calvin-l-warren-9780822370727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}