{"product_id":"9780822370871","title":"Ontological Terror : Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48690850988267,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":49.35,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780822370871-1.jpg?v=1781642491","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780822370871","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}