We Have Only This Life to Live
The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
$60.57
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2013
Summary
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 driv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590174937 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590174933 |
| Author: | Jean-Paul Sartre, Ronald Aronson |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 597g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 128mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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About The Author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a hugely influential French philosopher, novelist, playwright, and pamphleteer. In 1964 he declined the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his most well-known works available in English are Nausea, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and The Words.
Ronald Aronson is the author of The Dialectics of Disaster, After Marxism, Camus and Sartre and Living Without God. He teaches at Wayne State University.
Adrian van den Hoven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor and founding Executive Editor of Sartre Studies International. He has translated Sartre, Camus, and other French writers, and is the author of several books about Sartre. He was twice elected President of the North American Sartre Society.
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