Philosophy - Enlightenment] - LA METTRIE, Julien Offray de - Oeuvres philosophiques. Tome prémier [!] (- second). Amsterdam, s.n., 1753, 2 vols, 12mo, cont. mottled sheep (rubbed), gilt spines on 4 raised bands (heads and tails def., traces of use), red sp. edges, [2]-78-[20]-109-[1]-198, [2]-58-77-[1]-34-56-114-[2]-70-[2] pp.
Rare Amsterdam ed. (1st Berlin 1751) of the collected writings of the French physician and philosopher at the court of Frederick the Great, La Mettrie (1709-1751). It consists of 9 tracts that were also publ. separately. He is best known for “L’homme machine”, wherein he rejected the Cartesian dualism of mind and body, and proposed the metaphor of the human being a machine. This book marks the starting point of modern materialism and was the most forceful expression of the anti-religious sentiment of the Enlightenment. Also included are e.g. “Traité de l’âme”, “Les animaux plus que machines”, “L’homme plante”, “Anti-Seneque ou Discours sur le bonheur”, “L’art de jouir” (praising pleasure and suggesting a hierarchy of pleasures). Old collector’s ticket J.P. Petit . Bookseller’s stamp. Ref. Not in STCN ! Tchemerzine III:952. Cp. Conlon 51:767 (Berlin ed.).
Philosophy - Enlightenment] - LA METTRIE, Julien Offray de - Oeuvres philosophiques. Tome prémier [!] (- second). Amsterdam, s.n., 1753, 2 vols, 12mo, cont. mottled sheep (rubbed), gilt spines on 4 raised bands (heads and tails def., traces of use), red sp. edges, [2]-78-[20]-109-[1]-198, [2]-58-77-[1]-34-56-114-[2]-70-[2] pp.
Rare Amsterdam ed. (1st Berlin 1751) of the collected writings of the French physician and philosopher at the court of Frederick the Great, La Mettrie (1709-1751). It consists of 9 tracts that were also publ. separately. He is best known for “L’homme machine”, wherein he rejected the Cartesian dualism of mind and body, and proposed the metaphor of the human being a machine. This book marks the starting point of modern materialism and was the most forceful expression of the anti-religious sentiment of the Enlightenment. Also included are e.g. “Traité de l’âme”, “Les animaux plus que machines”, “L’homme plante”, “Anti-Seneque ou Discours sur le bonheur”, “L’art de jouir” (praising pleasure and suggesting a hierarchy of pleasures). Old collector’s ticket J.P. Petit . Bookseller’s stamp. Ref. Not in STCN ! Tchemerzine III:952. Cp. Conlon 51:767 (Berlin ed.).
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