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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"This is an excellent primary source text that should be included in any university library. It may easily be incorporated into any teaching context and is a valuable resource in French Enlightenment research." Jean-Pierre Schachter, Philosophy in Review
"The collection...well served by useful scholarly apparatus, such as a chronology of the life of La Mettrie, a listing of other works to consult, and a short history of the publication of each text. This collection okf La Mettrie's texts, which presents them to the English reading public in a clear and accessible form, is valuable to both the teacher and the scholar of the eighteenth century." Kathleen Wellman, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
"The appearance of Ann Thomson's splendid English translation of La Mettrie's major philosophical writings is timely. More than ever, various forms of naturalism and materialism dominate our thinking about the mind, and worries about reductionism are hotly debated." Dialogue
"The collection...well served by useful scholarly apparatus, such as a chronology of the life of La Mettrie, a listing of other works to consult, and a short history of the publication of each text. This collection okf La Mettrie's texts, which presents them to the English reading public in a clear and accessible form, is valuable to both the teacher and the scholar of the eighteenth century." Kathleen Wellman, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
"The appearance of Ann Thomson's splendid English translation of La Mettrie's major philosophical writings is timely. More than ever, various forms of naturalism and materialism dominate our thinking about the mind, and worries about reductionism are hotly debated." Dialogue
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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L'Homme machine was the first published anonymously by Elie Luzac in Leiden, towards the end of 1747, but dated 1748. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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L'Homme machine was the first published anonymously by Elie Luzac in Leiden, towards the end of 1747, but dated 1748. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vegetative soul, animate bodies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Machine Man, Complete Essays, The Virtue of the Pagans, Natural History of the Soul New!
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- The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Anne Conway in Back Matter
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