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La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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.

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052147258X

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Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant

By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant

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The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes translations of the advertisement and dedication to L'Homme machine. Justin Leiber's introduction illuminates the radical thinking and advocacy of the passionate La Mettrie and provides cogent analysis of La Mettrie's relationship to such important philosophical figures as Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke, and of his lasting influence on the development of materialism, cognitive studies, linguistics, and other areas of intellectual inquiry.

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Hackett Publishing

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0872201945

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9780872201941

Man a Machine (also Published as Machine Man and The Human Mechanism)

By: Julien Offray De la Mettrie

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Man a Machine (also Published as Machine Man and The Human Mechanism)

By: Julien Offray De la Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (November 23, 1709 - November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work L'homme machine (published in this edition as "Man a Machine" but also published under the titles "Machine Man" and "The Human Mechanism"). This translation is the work of several hands. It is founded on a version made by Miss Gertrude C. Bussey (from the French text in the edition of J. Assezat) and has been revised by Professor M. W. Calkins who is responsible for it in its present form. Mademoiselle M. Carret, of the Wellesley College department of French, and Professor George Santayana, of Harvard University, have given valued assistance; and this opportunity is taken to acknowledge their kindness in solving the problems of interpretation which have been submitted to them. It should be added that the translation sometimes subordinates the claims of English structure and style in the effort to render La Mettrie's meaning exactly. The philosophical and historical Notes are condensed and adapted from a master's thesis on La Mettrie presented by Miss Bussey to the faculty of Wellesley College.

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La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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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 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 an English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works translated into English, and Ann Thomson's introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism.

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0521478499

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9780521478496

Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant

By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Book's by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant

Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant

Man a Machine (also Published as Machine Man and The Human Mechanism)

Man a Machine (also Published as Machine Man and The Human Mechanism)

La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant

Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant

La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings

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