The scandalous French materialist Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51) is often said to have had close links to Émilie du Châtelet. This chapter looks at the supposed evidence, showing first of all that certain remarks in his writings have mistakenly been taken to be references…
BARBARY AND ENLIGHTENMENT -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- PRECONCEPTIONS -- PART TWO CLASSIFICATION -- INTRODUCTORY -- CHAPTER ONE LOCATION -- CHAPTER TWO RACE -- CHAPTER THREE SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT -- PART THREE -- TOWARDS THE CONQUEST -- CON…
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitudes towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placi…
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitudes towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placi…
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 …
