{"product_id":"a-commentary-on-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness-9780226096995","title":"A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph S. Catalano\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615296962711,"sku":"9780226096995","price":4272.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226096995.webp?v=1775099676","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-commentary-on-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness-9780226096995","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}