La Mettrie's L'Homme Machine. A Study in the Origins of an Idea. Critical Edition with an Introductory Monograph and Notes by Aram Vartanian.

VARTANIAN, Aram (1922-1997) [LA METTRIE, Julien Offray de 1709-1751]

Published by Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.

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4 leaves, 264 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, without dust jacket. See annotation to Garrison-Morton 586 for this book. Garrison-Morton 586 (citing 1st French ed., 1748): 'La Mettrie attempted among other things to prove the materialism of the soul. The book, published anonymously, was burnt by order of the magistrates of Leyden, owing to its heretical nature.'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: La Mettrie's L'Homme Machine. A Study in the Origins of an Idea. Critical Edition with an Introductory Monograph and Notes by Aram Vartanian.
• Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket