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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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