{"product_id":"la-mettrie-ann-thomson-9780521472586","title":"La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings","description":"Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51), author of Man a Machine (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succ s de scandale in his own time. This fully annotated edition presents a new English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works, translated into English for the first time. Ann Thomson's introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Thomson, Julien Offray De La Mettrie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 052147258X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521472586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 5.93w x 0.71d","brand":"Ann Thomson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45896430452991,"sku":"9780521472586","price":126.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_360a2cad-ef3b-4b97-935e-827b8fc38819.jpg?v=1721371382","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/la-mettrie-ann-thomson-9780521472586","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}