Affirmation in the Dark: Racial Slavery and Philosophical Pessimism.
The article focuses on racial slavery and philosophical pessimism. The author analyzes how Afro-Pessimism not only contributes to the tradition of philosophical pessimism but fundamentally changes it. He discusses the need to attend to the political ontology of racial slavery. He cites the book "Ont...
| Publicado en: | Comparatist Vol. 43; pp. 90 - 112 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Oct2019
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on racial slavery and philosophical pessimism. The author analyzes how Afro-Pessimism not only contributes to the tradition of philosophical pessimism but fundamentally changes it. He discusses the need to attend to the political ontology of racial slavery. He cites the book "Ontological Terror," by Calvin Warren, which explores the ontology of anti-blackness and its relation to violence. |
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