La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

By:

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51), author of Machine Man (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succes de scandale in his own time. It was however a serious, if polemical, attempt to provide an explanation of the workings of the human body and mind in purely material terms and to show that thought was the product of the workings of the brain alone. 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, and Ann Thomson's introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism.

Release date NZ

April 18th, 1996

Author

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributor

Edited by Ann Thomson

Pages

212

Series

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Dimensions

152x235x18

ISBN-13

9780521472586

Product ID

2035042

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