The series includes texts by familiar names and also by less well-known authors. Wherever possible, texts are published in complete and unabridged form, and translations are specially commissioned for the series.

Man a Machine is a book on philosophy by Julien Offray de La Mettrie. The author was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment movement.

The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes translations of the advertisement and dedication to ...

Includes Frederick the Great's "Eulogy" on La Mettrie's "The Natural History of the Soul."

He is best known for his work L'homme machine (published in this edition as "Man a Machine" but also published under the titles "Machine Man" and "The Human Mechanism"). This translation is the work of several hands.

This fully annotated edition presents a new English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works, translated into English for the first time.