Vartanian LaMettrie's L'Homme Machine

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7801-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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 edition offers the first established text, with extensive notes. In his introduction, Dr. Vartanian discusses La Mettrie’s thesis, its sources, the place of the man-machine idea in the development of La Mettrie’s materialism, and its critical impact on the intellectual struggles of the eighteenth century.

Originally published in 1960.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Vartanian, Aram

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. v
I. Biographical Sketch of La Mettrie, pg. 1
II. Interpretation of l'Homme machine, pg. 13
III. The Development of La Mettrie's Thought, pg. 40
IV. The Historical Background of l'Homme machine, pg. 57
V. The Critical Reaction of La Mettrie's Contemporaries, pg. 95
VI. L’Homme machine since 1748, pg. 114
A Note on the Text, pg. 137
L’Homme machine, pg. 139
Notes, pg. 199
Bibliography, pg. 251
Index, pg. 259