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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...

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It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. The former was a thirteenth-century Dominican friar known for reconciling the teachings of the Catholic Church with Aristotelianism. The latter was a twentieth-century intellectual known as the central figure in the literary-philosophical movement known as existentialism. The former was a firm believer, the latter was a notorious atheist. And yet, ...

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Thinking Matter" is an original and provocative look at the nature of consciousness. While many contemporary philosophers have downplayed the significance of the body and subscribed to a brain/body dualism in human consciousness, Joseph S. Catalano argues that it is the "entire" fleshy body that thinks, the body of the dancer, the hands of the writer, and the eyes of the reader are not merely instruments of thought, but forms of thought itself...

["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 man...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Catalano provides an in-depth exploration of Sartre's four major philosophical writings: Being and Nothingness, Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, The Critique of Dialectical Reason, and The Family Idiot. Catalano demonstrates the interrelation of these works, their internal logic, and how they provide insights into overlooked aspects of Sartre's thought.

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