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Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness

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ISBN-10: 0226096998

ISBN-13: 9780226096995

Edition: 1985 (Reprint)

Authors: Joseph S. Catalano

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Preface to the Phoenix Edition
Preface Acknowledgments
Background The Title:Being and Nothingness
The Subtitle:An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
The Introduction
The Pursuit of Being
The Phenomenon
The Phenomenon of Being and the Being of the Phenomenon
The Pre-Reflective Cogito and the Being of thePercipere
The Being of thePercipi
The Ontological Proof
Being-in-Itself
The Problem of Nothingness
The Origin of Negation
The Question
Negations
The Dialectical Concept of Nothingness
The Phenomenological Concept of Nothingness
The Origin of Nothingness
Bad Faith
Bad Faith and Falsehood
Patterns of Bad Faith
The "Faith" of Bad Faith
Being-For-Itself
The Immediate Structures of For-Itself
Presence to Self
The Facticity of the For-Itself
The For-Itself and the Being of Value
The For-Itself and the Being of Possibilities
The Self and the Circuit of Selfness
Temporality
Phenomenology of the Three Temporal Dimensions
The Ontology of Temporality
Original Temporality and Psychic Temporality: Reflection
Transcendence
Knowledge as a Type of Relation Between the For-Itself and the In-Itself
Determination as Negation
Quality and Quantity, Potentiality, Instrumentality
The Time of the World
Knowledge
Being-For-Others
The Existence of Others
The Reef of Solipsism
Husserl, Hegel, Heidegger
The Look
The Body
The Body as Being-For-Itself: Facticity
The Body-For-Others
The Third Ontological Dimension of the Body
Concrete Relations with Others
First Attitude toward Others: Love, Language, Masochism
Second Attitude Toward Others: Indifference, Desire, Hate, Sadism
"Being-With" (Mitsein) and the "We" Part Four: Having, Doing, and Being
Being and Doing: Freedom
Freedom: The First Condition of Action
Freedom and Facticity: The Situation
Freedom and Responsibility
Doing and Having
Existential Psychoanalysis
"Doing" and "Having": Possession
Quality as a Revelation of Being
Conclusion
The In-Itself and For-Itself: Metaphysical Implications
Ethical Implications
Index