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[A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness] represents, I believe, a very important beginning of a deservingly serious effort to make the whole of Being and Nothingness more readily understandable and readable. . . . In his systematic interpretations of Sartre's book, [Catalano] demonstrates a determination to confront many of the most demanding issues and concepts of Being and Nothingness. He does not shrink?as do so many interpreters of Sartre?from such issues as the varied meanings of 'being,' the meaning of 'internal negation' and 'absolute event,' the idiosyncratic senses of transcendence, the meaning of the 'upsurge' in its different contexts, what it means to say that we 'exist our body,' the connotation of such concepts as quality, quantity, potentiality, and instrumentality (in respect to Sartre's world of 'things'), or the origin of negation. . . . Catalano offers what is doubtless one of the most probing, original, and illuminating interpretations of Sartre's crucial concept of nothingness to appear in the Sartrean literature. ?Ronald E. Santoni, International Philosophical QuarterlyProduct Identifiers
PublisherT.H.E. University of Chicago Press
ISBN-139780226096995
eBay Product ID (ePID)88910782
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness
AuthorJoseph S. Catalano
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Philosophy
Publication Year1985
Dimensions
Item Height210mm
Item Width140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJoseph S. Catalano
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States