La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521478496)

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.

Author: Julien Offray De La Mettrie
ISBN-10: 0521478499
ISBN-13: 9780521478496
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/1996
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.02w x 0.52d