A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness

A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness

Author: Joseph S. Catalano

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1985-09-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0226096998

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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 Quarterly


A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness

A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness

Author: Joseph S. Catalano

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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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 Quarterly


Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 869

ISBN-13: 0671867806

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Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.


Reading Sartre

Reading Sartre

Author: Joseph S. Catalano

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-05-31

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0521152275

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Joseph Catalano offers an in-depth exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's four major philosophical writings.


Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness'

Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness'

Author: Sebastian Gardner

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0826474683

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This text presents a concise and accessible introduction Jean-Paul Satre's existentialist book 'Being and Nothingness'.


Jean-Paul Sartre: To Freedom Condemned

Jean-Paul Sartre: To Freedom Condemned

Author: Justus Streller

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1453228829

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DIVDIVJean-Paul Sartre’s most influential existentialist work, Being and Nothingness, broken down into its most fertile ideas In To Freedom Condemned, Sartre’s most influential work, Being and Nothingness, is laid bare, presenting the philosopher’s key ideas regarding existentialism. Covering the philosophers Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl, and mulling over such topics as love, God, death, and freedom, To Freedom Condemned goes on to consider Sartre’s treatment of the complexities around human existence./divDIV/div/div


Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

Author: Sonia Kruks

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0195381432

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A study of Simone de Beauvoir's (1908-1986) political thinking. The author locates de Beauvoir in her own intellectual and political context and demonstrates her continuing significance.


Camus and Sartre

Camus and Sartre

Author: Ronald Aronson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2004-01-03

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780226027968

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Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides rather than to appreciate its tragic complexity. Now, using newly available sources, Ronald Aronson offers the first book-length account of the twentieth century's most famous friendship and its end. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. The two became fast friends. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. As playwrights, novelists, philosophers, journalists, and editors, the two seemed to be everywhere and in command of every medium in post-war France. East-West tensions would put a strain on their friendship, however, as they evolved in opposing directions and began to disagree over philosophy, the responsibilities of intellectuals, and what sorts of political changes were necessary or possible. As Camus, then Sartre adopted the mantle of public spokesperson for his side, a historic showdown seemed inevitable. Sartre embraced violence as a path to change and Camus sharply opposed it, leading to a bitter and very public falling out in 1952. They never spoke again, although they continued to disagree, in code, until Camus's death in 1960. In a remarkably nuanced and balanced account, Aronson chronicles this riveting story while demonstrating how Camus and Sartre developed first in connection with and then against each other, each keeping the other in his sights long after their break. Combining biography and intellectual history, philosophical and political passion, Camus and Sartre will fascinate anyone interested in these great writers or the world-historical issues that tore them apart.