Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation

Author/Contributor(s):	Warren, Calvin L
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	05/18/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.