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Author: John E. Drabinski
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 9781531512378
ISBN 10: 1531512372
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 19 December 2025
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""A fascinating book that we need now more than ever. Brilliantly juxtaposing the literatures on deconstruction and social death, Drabinski poses clearly a central dilemma, though its solution is daunting: How can an ostensibly socially dead being (e.g. a Black person in a society founded on antiblack animus) ever become free and live free in a polity constructed to ensure that person’s unfreedom?"" - Neil Roberts, Williams College ""At the Margins of Nihilism offers a wide-ranging series of reflections on issues of enduring importance and interest – colonialism, racism (specifically antiblackness), and social death – through an engagement with major figures in continental philosophy and Black Studies. The book is the work of a mature thinker who moves between philosophical and literary traditions with ease and comfort."" - Lisa Guenther, Queen’s University
""At the Margins of Nihilism offers a wide-ranging series of reflections on issues of enduring importance and interest--colonialism, racism (specifically antiblackness), and social death--through an engagement with major figures in continental philosophy and Black Studies. The book is the work of a mature thinker who moves between philosophical and literary traditions with ease and comfort.""---Lisa Guenther, Queen's University ""A fascinating book that we need now more than ever. Brilliantly juxtaposing the literatures on deconstruction and social death, Drabinski poses clearly a central dilemma, though its solution is daunting: How can an ostensibly socially dead being (e.g. a Black person in a society founded on antiblack animus) ever become free and live free in a polity constructed to ensure that person's unfreedom?""---Neil Roberts, Williams College
Author Information
John E. Drabinski is Professor of African American and Africana Studies and English at the University of Maryland. He is author of So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic (2025), Atlantic Theory: On the Vicissitudes of Relation (2025), Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss (2019), Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations (2015), Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (2011), Godard Between Identity and Difference (2008), and Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas (2001).
