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Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant
Language: en
Pages: 100
Authors: Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-01 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

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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
La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-04-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 provocat
La Mettrie
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Kathleen Anne Wellman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher:

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Julien Offray de la Mettrie, best known as the author of L'Homme machine, appears as a minor character in most accounts of the Enlightenment. But in this intell
LaMettrie's L'Homme Machine
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Aram Vartanian
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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As a classic of the French Enlightenment, L'Homme Machine has in the past been of equal interest to students of philosophy, science, and literature. The present
From Perfectibility to Perversion
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Michael E. Winston
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France traces the evolution of human perfectibility discourse during the second half of the e