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Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The question of Black being -- Outlawing -- Scientific horror -- Catachrestic fantasies. |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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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 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 |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Race -- Political aspects.
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Racism against Black people.
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Racism.
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Race awareness.
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Black people -- Race identity.
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Nihilism (Philosophy)
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Ontology.
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Race -- Aspect politique.
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Racisme.
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Conscience de race.
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Nihilisme.
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Ontologie.
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Racisme à l'égard des personnes noires.
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Personnes noires -- Identité ethnique.
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nihilism.
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ontologies (vocabularies)
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ontology (metaphysics)
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Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
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Black people -- Race identity
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Nihilism (Philosophy)
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Ontology
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Race awareness
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Race -- Political aspects
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Racism
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Racism against Black people
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| In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Warren, Calvin L., 1980- Ontological terror. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9780822370727 (DLC) 2017045250 |
| ISBN |
9780822371847 (ebook) |
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0822371847 |
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1478090332 |
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9781478090335 |
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9780822370727 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0822370727 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780822370871 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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0822370875 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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AU@ 000061051430 |
