![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Santoni, International Philosophical Quarterly 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. A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartres Being and Nothingness represents, I believe, a very important beginning of a deservingly serious effort to make the. 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. ![]() ![]() In his systematic interpretations of Sartre's book, demonstrates a determination to confront many of the most demanding issues and concepts of Being and Nothingness. 10 Catalano, Joseph S., A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartres Being and Nothingness (New York: Harper & Row, 1974). " 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. ![]()
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