The Wisdom of Pleasures: The School of Voluptuousness and The Art of Enjoyment by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The Wisdom of Pleasures: The School of Voluptuousness and The Art of Enjoyment

Julien Offray de La Mettrie with Kirk Watson (Translator)

82 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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He's known for his audacious claim in 'Man a Machine' that humans can be reduced to their mechanism: but La Mettrie wrote other books too. In these hidden gems, the most radical of all Enlightenment thinkers lays bare his hedonistic ideas. In a go...

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