{"product_id":"ontological-terror","title":"Ontological Terror","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOntological Terror\u003c\/i\u003e 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\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53510553305455,"sku":"9780822370871","price":212.66,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0822370875.jpg?v=1789991736","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/ontological-terror","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}