TY - BOOK AU - Sartre,Jean-Paul AU - Aronson,Ronald AU - Van den Hoven,Adrian TI - We have only this life to live: selected essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975 T2 - New York Review Books Classics SN - 1590174933 (alk. paper) PY - 2013///] CY - New York, NY PB - New York Review Books KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-555) N2 - 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 ER -