A Hazardous Materialist: La Mettrie's Life and Ideas

by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Kirk Watson

A "bold atheist", a "renowned glutton", an "enemy of doctors", a "mad imagination", an "overly joyful man", a purveyor of "incoherent lunacy" - and that's just what Voltaire thought about him. Several times a refugee for his writings, a man who stood alone against both Christianity and the medical establishment, La Mettrie is a lost icon of free speech and moral courage. Instead, both during his life and for generations after death, La Mettrie became...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 171776732X
• ISBN13: 9781717767325
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"