We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975 (New York Review Books Classics)

Lovely for the beach, a great bunch of essays revealing Sartre's thought processes, his poetic tendencies to infatuate the reader with philosophy and of course his subjective opinions - unfortunately for Camus.Particularly appreciated the variety of the essays, ranging from literary analyses to diary entries and letters.

satre is satre some of him is the best some is just mediocre or naive..but a must read if you want to seem educated.

Bright mind.Funny thinking.Never boring.Good teacher.As Amazon knows, Hell are other people.I do not know what else to write.

This is classic Sartre. Anyone interested in Humanistic Existentialism should have and read this collection. This book is an anchor for Existential thought and criticism.

If you are a philosophy nut this one is for you! If you are not then pass on this one

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Having been chosen for a part in the deathly ratline after I reached the age of 21 years old, received a Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in Engineering Mechanics with student work done in fluid dynamics of convection currents at a cold liquid water temperature with a parabolic density set of partial differential equations involved in the flow pattern, I expected to schlepp through my military service quickly by clinging to the most polymorphously perverse incentives, I find now at the age of 70 that I deserve a death by wisecrack, and philosophy is the field which comes closest to the experimental existential psychology in which death has the most significance for people who are trying to avoid the modern miracle of technological life support when a stroke has erased vital brain functions. I hardly appreciated Sartre before, but the intensity of my interest in Sartre and Kierkegaard grew when Sartre revealed the date of the death of Kierkegaard, November 11, 1855, a mere 53 years before the end of the world's great war in November, 1911. On page 426, Sartre observed:Kierkegaard made regressive use of objectiveand objectifying ensembles in such a waythat the self-destruction of the languagenecessarily unmasks he who employs it.Walter Kaufmann had chosen Mind and Mask as a combined topic to reveal triumphs of atheism in a trilogy, Discovering the Mind, which was being published in 1980, when Walter Kaufmann died on September 4 in a glorious end of his free demo of what piffle people hardly understand. The trilogy was about the intellectual life of dead European males who did not fall back on Kierkegaard when death came lurking in the events they chose to expand. Zarathustra became a clown of die at the right time, bit Nietzsche lingered until 1900 in the care of his mother and his sister, who was overly impressed with what Germans could do if you wanted something cosmic.Sartre love Kierkegaard like a refutation of Hegel who killed himself by clinging to aristocratic attitudes when Christendom was split right up the middle on how big a miracle could money become. What Sartre liked is so obvious now:Kierkegaard by contrast constructed his languagein such away as to reveal within his false knowledgecertain lines of force which allowed the possibilityof a return from the pseudo-object to the subject, (p. 426).I love the such away, which reminds me of pointing out a typographical error in a text by Walter Kaufmann quoting the poem by Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach on vast edges near which were really drear. (Man's Lot, Life At The Limits, p. 77).Death can be such away relief from the social slime which Jesus shaves my own attitudes about you are going to die unless you kill someone else first.

Given how little we have readily available, this is a worthwhile collection.TOC images attached, or should be. Had hoped for an excerpt from the Anti-Semite book. Oh well.