{"product_id":"a-commentary-on-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness-9780226096995","title":"A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness","description":"\"[\u003ci\u003eA Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e] represents, I believe, a very important beginning of a deservingly serious effort to make the whole of \u003ci\u003eBeing and Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBeing and Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eInternational Philosophical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatalano, Joseph S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJoseph S. Catalano \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus of philosophy at Kean University in New Jersey and the author of several books, most recently, \u003ci\u003eReading Sartre: An Invitation\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Manhattan, New York.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844118122770,"sku":"9780226096995","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c4eaf11d-f604-4bfe-bc54-17a5ef34c954.jpg?v=1737311832","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-commentary-on-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness-9780226096995","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}