Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness", Paperback by Catala...

"[A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartres 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 Sartres 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 Sartres world of things), or the origin of negation. . . . Catalano offers what is doubtless one of the most probing, original, and illuminating interpretations of Sartres crucial concept of nothingness to appear in the Sartrean literature."—Ronald E. Santoni, International Philosophical Quarterly