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We Have Only This Life to Live
  • Published: 15 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9781590174937
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $59.99

We Have Only This Life to Live

The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975

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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.
  • Published: 15 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9781590174937
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $59.99
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Praise 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)

  • "Jean-Paul Sartre dominated the intellectual life of twentieth-century France to an extraordinary degree." --Tom Bishop, New York Times

  • "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)

  • "Jean-Paul Sartre dominated the intellectual life of twentieth-century France to an extraordinary degree." --Tom Bishop, New York Times