Mark Christian Thompson is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book is Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (2022).

Introduction: Ontology and Nonviolence
1. Being and Nonviolence
2. Nonbeing and Nonviolence
3. Black Power as Nonviolence
4. Gnosticism and Nonviolence
5. Divine Nonviolence
Conclusion: Eros as Nonviolence