Machine man and other writings

by La Mettrie, Julien Offray de

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Full title :Machine man and other writings / Julien Offray de La Mettrie ; translated and edited by Ann Thomson.

Summary

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 succès 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:xxx, 179 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:052147258X, 9780521472586, 0521478499, 9780521478496
oclc:ocm32311131
LC Classification:B2062
Dewey Decimal:194

Machine Man -- Treatise on the soul -- Man as Plant -- The System of Epicurus -- Anti-Seneca or the Sovereign Good -- Preliminary Discourse.

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Französischer Materialismus Lichaam en geest Maschinentheorie des Lebens materialism materialisme Mécanisme (Philosophie) Mechanicisme Mechanism (Philosophy) Mensch Philosophische Anthropologie