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Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy, illustrating how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing while showing how this nothingness destabilizes whiteness, makes blacks a target of violence, and explains why humanism has failed to achieve equality for blacks.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Free Black Is Nothing 1
1. The Question of Black Being 26
2. Outlawing 62
3. Scientific Horror 110
4. Catachrestic Fantasies 143
Coda. Adieu to the Human 169
Notes 173
Bibliography 201
Index 211

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    Publisher: Duke University Press
    Publication Date: 18/05/2018
    ISBN13: 9780822370871, 978-0822370871
    ISBN10: 0822370875
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy, illustrating how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing while showing how this nothingness destabilizes whiteness, makes blacks a target of violence, and explains why humanism has failed to achieve equality for blacks.

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments ix
    Introduction. The Free Black Is Nothing 1
    1. The Question of Black Being 26
    2. Outlawing 62
    3. Scientific Horror 110
    4. Catachrestic Fantasies 143
    Coda. Adieu to the Human 169
    Notes 173
    Bibliography 201
    Index 211

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