Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation

Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and EmancipationIn 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

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