Man a Machine and Man a Plant

By Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872201945
• ISBN13: 9780872201941
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Boy has Society Come a Long Way.

This was a very interesting read. La Mettrie spends the course of two essays describing what for the most part may well be common knowledge now. What amazed me is that this was a banned book at one time and that he originally published it anonymously for fear of repercussions. Boy has society come a long way.