La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
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| Management number | 231461030 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$26.55 | Model Number | 231461030 | ||
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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 succès 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. Read more
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