We Have Only This Life To Live

Jean-Paul Sartre, Ronald Aronson, Adrian van den Hoven

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New York Review of Books
15 January 2013

Literary essays; Philosophy

Philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist, and activist, Jean-Paul Sartre was also-and perhaps above all-a great essayist. The essay was uniquely suited to Sartre because of its intrinsically provisional and open-ended character. It is the perfect form in which to dramatize the existential character of our deepest intellectual, artistic, and political commitments.

This new selection of Sartre's essays, the first in English to draw on the entire ten volumes of his collected essays as well as previously unpublished work, includes extraordinarily searching appreciations of such writers and artists as Faulkner, Bataille, and Giacometti; Sartre's great address to the French people at the end of the occupation, ""The Republic of Silence""; sketches of the United States from his visit in the 1940s; reflections on politics that are both incisive and incendiary; portraits of Camus and Merleau-Ponty; and a candid reckoning with his own career from one of the interviews that ill-health made his prime mode of communication late in life.

Together they add up to an unequaled portrait of a revolutionary and sometimes reckless thinker and writer and his contentious, difficult but never less than interesting times.

By: Jean-Paul Sartre
Edited by: Ronald Aronson, Adrian van den Hoven
Imprint: New York Review of Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 34mm, Spine: 138mm
Weight: 597g
ISBN: 9781590174937
ISBN 10: 1590174933
Publication Date: 15 January 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for We Have Only This Life To Live

For my generation [Sartre] has always been one of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, a man whose insight and intellectual gifts were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of our time. --Edward Said One of the most brilliant and versatile writers as well as one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. -- Times (London) Sartre minced no words, and his easy, natural way of writing enabled him to expound on diverse subjects. [Here] existentialism is clear and logical. Sartre wrote essays probing every political and social theme of his time, providing a remarkable view of history. His literary criticism should be the established standard for book reviewing. --Kirkus Reviews Our teachers are those who bring us something radical and new, finding those ways of thinking that correspond to our modernity, our difficulties as well as our vague enthusiasms. That's what Sartre was for us twenty-year-olds. Who except Sartre knew how to say anything new? --Gilles Deleuze Jean-Paul Sartre dominated the intellectual life of twentieth-century France to an extraordinary degree. --Tom Bishop, New York Times