| La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings Contributor(s): La Mettrie, Julien Offray De (Author), Thomson, Ann (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1139166719 ISBN-13: 9781139166713 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $494.00 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 194 |
| Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |