TY - BOOK ID - 32866797 TI - Ontological terror : Blackness, nihilism, and emancipation PY - 2018 SN - 0822370727 0822371847 0822370875 9780822371847 1478090332 PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Race KW - Racism. KW - Race awareness. KW - Blacks KW - Nihilism (Philosophy) KW - Ontology. KW - Political aspects. KW - Race identity. KW - Being KW - Philosophy KW - Metaphysics KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Substance (Philosophy) KW - Black identity KW - Blackness (Race identity) KW - Negritude KW - Race identity of blacks KW - Racial identity of blacks KW - Ethnicity KW - Race awareness KW - Awareness KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Ethnic attitudes KW - Bias, Racial KW - Race bias KW - Race prejudice KW - Racial bias KW - Prejudices KW - Anti-racism KW - Race relations KW - Physical anthropology KW - Critical race theory KW - Race identity of Black people KW - Racial identity of Black people KW - Black persons KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Black people KW - awareness KW - philosophy KW - ontology KW - race KW - race identity KW - racism KW - political aspects KW - nihilism KW - blacks KW - Free Negro KW - Humanism KW - Martin Heidegger KW - Negro UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32866797 AB - 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 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. ER -