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In this volume, Joseph Catalano offers an in-depth exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's four major philosophical writings: Being and Nothingness, Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, The Critique of Dialectical Reason, and The Family Idiot. These works have been immensely influential, but they are long and difficult and thus challenging for both students and scholars. Catalano here demonstrates the interrelation of these four works, their internal logic, and how they provide insights into important but overlooked aspects of Sartre's thought, such as the body, childhood, and evil. The book begins with Sartre's final work, The Family Idiot, and systematically works backward to Being and Nothingness. Catalano then repeats the study by advancing chronologically, beginning with Being and Nothingness and ending with The Family Idiot and an afterword on Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Readers will appreciate Catalano's subtle readings as well as the new insights that he brings to Sartre's oeuvre.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, --- Sartre, Jean-Paul --- Sartŭr, Zhan-Pol --- Sartr, Zhan-Polʹ --- Sārtar, Jān-Būl --- Sārtar, Zhān-Pūl --- Sha-tʻe --- Sartre, J.-P. --- Sa-tʻe --- Sate --- Sa-tʻe, Jang-Pao-erh --- Sate, Rangbao'er --- Sāt, Chō̜ng-Pō̜n --- Sarutoru --- Sarṭr, G'on Pol --- Chō̜ng-Pō̜n Sāt --- Cārttar, L̲ān̲-Pōl --- Сартp, Жан-Поль, --- סארטר, ג׳אן פול --- סארטר, ג׳אן פון --- סארטר, ז׳אן פול --- סארטר, ז׳אן־פול, --- سارتر، جان پول --- Guillemin, Jacques --- Sārtra, Jyām̐ Pāla --- Philosophers --- サルトル, ジャン ポール --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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This study presents Moby-Dick as a novel with three distinct but interconnecting stories: Ishmael’s, which he shares ten years after it has taken place; Ahab’s, which is Ishmael's account of the memorable captain of a whaling ship; and a third which centres on whales and whaling, which has not received significant critical attention. While each of these perspectives compete for prominence in the narrative, Ahab and Ishmael's stories have often distracted from the vital significance of the whaling narrative as what outlasts Ahab’s obsessive mission. Catalano rights this wrong by coming to a strikingly original and thought-provoking conclusion which becomes the heart of the book's argument: “the unity of Melville’s book comes, first, from the way the numerous literary, philosophical, and religious reflections are rooted in those magnificent beings, whales and in the men and ships that pursue them, and, second, in the way these reflections illuminate our own lives.” Joseph S. Catalono is professor emeritus of philosophy at Kean University, USA. Some of his previous publications include Thinking Matter: Consciousness From Aristotle to Putnam and Sartre (2000), Reading Sartre: An Invitation…(2010), and The Saint and the Atheist: Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre (2021).

Literature, Modern --- America --- Oceanography. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Ocean Sciences. --- 19th century. --- Literatures.