| We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975 Contributor(s): Sartre, Jean-Paul (Author), Aronson, Ronald (Introduction by), Van Den Hoven, Adrian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1590174933 ISBN-13: 9781590174937 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Essays - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 2013001043 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 5.06" W x 8" (1.29 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre's restless intelligence may have found its most characteristic outlet in the open-ended form of the essay. For Sartre the essay was an essentially dramatic form, the record of an encounter, the framing of a choice. Whether writing about literature, art, politics, or his own life, he seizes our attention and drives us to grapple with the living issues that are at stake. We Have Only This Life to Live is the first gathering of Sartre's essays in English to draw on all ten volumes of Situations, the title under which Sartre collected his essays during his life, while also featuring previously uncollected work, including the reports Sartre filed during his 1945 trip to America. Here Sartre writes about Faulkner, Bataille, Giacometti, Fanon, the liberation of France, torture in Algeria, existentialism and Marxism, friends lost and found, and much else. We Have Only This Life to Live provides an indispensable, panoramic view of the world of Jean-Paul Sartre. |