Ontological Terror Blackness, Nihilism and Emancipation

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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Main Author: L. Warren, Calvin (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2018
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