1748, ISBN: ce2f67c9c1b156b6e6bbef6b119da778

[SC: 24.42], [PU: 'A Londres' [Leiden?], 1748.], PHILOSOPHY IRELAND FRANCE BELGIUM LUXEMBOURG NOISBN, 12mo, pp. [8], 140; browned with occasional foxing, corners curled; a good copy in co… More...

[SC: 24.42], [PU: 'A Londres' [Leiden?], 1748.], PHILOSOPHY IRELAND FRANCE BELGIUM LUXEMBOURG NOISBN, 12mo, pp. [8], 140; browned with occasional foxing, corners curled; a good copy in contemporary blue paper wrappers, some losses to spine and covers; ownership stamp of Marcel Bekus to title verso. First edition of this attack against materialism and La Mettrie's L'homme machine, published in the same year. The work was included in the 1774 edition of the Oeuvres of La Mettrie, volume III. 'The possibility of matter being endowed with the faculty of thought, is denied by Elie Luzac, the publisher of L'Homme Machine, in his work L'Homme plus que machine. In this work he tries to disprove the conclusions of L'Homme machine. He says: 'We have therefore proved by the idea of the inert state of matter, by that of motion, by that relations, by that of activity, by that of extension, that matter can not be possessed of the faculty of thinking To be brief, I say, that if, by a material substance, we understand that matter which falls under the cognizance of our senses, and which is endowed with the qualities we have mentioned, the soul can not be material: so that it must be immaterial, and, for the same reason, God could not have given the faculty of thinking to matter, since He can not perform contradictions' (Gertrude Carman Bussey in her notes on La Mettrie, Man a machine, p.177).ESTC N8346; Quépat, Essai sur La Mettrie, p. 22; Quérard V, p.399. Language: French<

1748, ISBN: ce2f67c9c1b156b6e6bbef6b119da778

[PU: 'A Londres' [Leiden?], 1748.], PHILOSOPHY IRELAND FRANCE BELGIUM LUXEMBOURG NOISBN, 12mo, pp. [8], 140; browned with occasional foxing, corners curled; a good copy in contemporary bl… More...

[PU: 'A Londres' [Leiden?], 1748.], PHILOSOPHY IRELAND FRANCE BELGIUM LUXEMBOURG NOISBN, 12mo, pp. [8], 140; browned with occasional foxing, corners curled; a good copy in contemporary blue paper wrappers, some losses to spine and covers; ownership stamp of Marcel Bekus to title verso. First edition of this attack against materialism and La Mettrie's L'homme machine, published in the same year. The work was included in the 1774 edition of the Oeuvres of La Mettrie, volume III. 'The possibility of matter being endowed with the faculty of thought, is denied by Elie Luzac, the publisher of L'Homme Machine, in his work L'Homme plus que machine. In this work he tries to disprove the conclusions of L'Homme machine. He says: 'We have therefore proved by the idea of the inert state of matter, by that of motion, by that relations, by that of activity, by that of extension, that matter can not be possessed of the faculty of thinking To be brief, I say, that if, by a material substance, we understand that matter which falls under the cognizance of our senses, and which is endowed with the qualities we have mentioned, the soul can not be material: so that it must be immaterial, and, for the same reason, God could not have given the faculty of thinking to matter, since He can not perform contradictions' (Gertrude Carman Bussey in her notes on La Mettrie, Man a machine, p.177).ESTC N8346; Quépat, Essai sur La Mettrie, p. 22; Quérard V, p.399. Language: French<

1748, ISBN: ce2f67c9c1b156b6e6bbef6b119da778

[SC: 17.0], [PU: Londres (Leyde)], PHILOSOPHIE , HISTOIRE DES IDÉES ;, Petit in-12 de (8)-140 pp., basane marbrée, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, frise dorée d'encadrem… More...

[SC: 17.0], [PU: Londres (Leyde)], PHILOSOPHIE , HISTOIRE DES IDÉES ;, Petit in-12 de (8)-140 pp., basane marbrée, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, frise dorée d'encadrement sur les plats, tranches jaspées (reliure de l'époque). Edition originale publiée à Leyde. Elie Luzac (1721-1796) a joué un rôle crucial dans la diffusion des idées matérialistes de La Mettrie dans L'Homme machine (1747). « L?éditeur Elie Luzac produit dans ses écrits une parole dialogique qui oscille entre l?assertion et le déni. Descendant de réfugiés huguenots, il condamne ce qu?il publie et publie ce qu?il condamne. Cette ambiguïté discursive se dessine dans L?Homme plus que machine (1748) qui cite les thèses de La Mettrie pour les contester ».Traces de frottements sur la reliure, petite épidermure sur le plat supérieur, feuillets légèrement roussis. Tchemerzine-Scheler, III, 958, 6 ; Lemée, p. 249, n°26 ; Stoddart, A8.<

1748, ISBN: ce2f67c9c1b156b6e6bbef6b119da778

[SC: 3.0], [PU: Londres, 1748], Halbleder : Einband berieben u. m. kleineren Fehlstellen, Seiten nachgedunkelt u. vereinzelt stockfleckig, sonst tadellos, (8), 140 Seiten ; 14 x 8 cm 1001… More...

[SC: 3.0], [PU: Londres, 1748], Halbleder : Einband berieben u. m. kleineren Fehlstellen, Seiten nachgedunkelt u. vereinzelt stockfleckig, sonst tadellos, (8), 140 Seiten ; 14 x 8 cm 1001 g. Sprache: französisch<

1748, ISBN: ce2f67c9c1b156b6e6bbef6b119da778

Halbleder : Einband berieben u. m. kleineren Fehlstellen, Seiten nachgedunkelt u. vereinzelt stockfleckig, sonst tadellos, (8), 140 Seiten ; 14 x 8 cm Versand D: 5,00 EUR , [PU:Londres, 1… More...

Halbleder : Einband berieben u. m. kleineren Fehlstellen, Seiten nachgedunkelt u. vereinzelt stockfleckig, sonst tadellos, (8), 140 Seiten ; 14 x 8 cm Versand D: 5,00 EUR , [PU:Londres, 1748]<