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Ontological Terror : Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation /

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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 paradi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warren, Calvin L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global).
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • DEDICATION
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION The Free Black Is Nothing
  • CHAPTER 1 The Question of Black Being
  • CHAPTER 2 Outlawing
  • CHAPTER 3 Scientific Horror
  • CHAPTER 4 Catachrestic Fantasies
  • CODA Adieu to the Human
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index