{"product_id":"2940157912239","title":"A Hazardous Materialist: La Mettrie's Life and Ideas","description":"A \"bold atheist\", a \"renowned glutton\", an \"enemy of all doctors\", a \"mad imagination\", an \"overly joyful man\", a purveyor of \"incoherent lunacy\" -- and that's just what Voltaire thought about him. Several times made 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead, both during his life and for generations after death, La Mettrie became the iconic \"bad atheist\" - a favorite target of Christian apologists, but also \"the whipping-boy of French materialism\" who was definitively rejected by the leading philosophes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection, which contains new or first-ever translations of over a dozen historical texts, offers a second opinion on a man who was far ahead of his time: a brilliant theorist of materialism, teacher of a life-affirming hedonism, and a forerunner of Nietzsche.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of contents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLA METTRIE'S CHRONOLOGY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEULOGIZED BY A KING\u003cbr\u003e-A EULOGY FOR LA METTRIE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN HIS OWN WORDS: LA METTRIE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES\u003cbr\u003e-PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE\u003cbr\u003e-A RESPONSE TO A LIBEL AGAINST THE AUTHOR,\u003cbr\u003e-PLEASURE IS PROPHYLACTIC\u003cbr\u003e-WRITING HOME FROM EXILE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \"PERSECUTED PHILOSOPHER\" IN THE PRUSSIAN COURT\u003cbr\u003e-FROM THE KING TO MAUPERTUIS\u003cbr\u003e-FROM MAUPERTUIS TO THE KING\u003cbr\u003e-FROM THE KING TO MAUPERTUIS.\u003cbr\u003e-LA METTRIE'S LETTER OF INTRODUCTION AT THE PRUSSIAN COURT\u003cbr\u003e-FROM THE KING TO MAUPERTUIS\u003cbr\u003e-FROM MAUPERTUIS TO THE KING\u003cbr\u003e-LA METTRIE IN VOLTAIRE'S CORRESPONDENCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDISSECTING THE LATE LA METTRIE: POST-MORTEM DEPOSITIONS\u003cbr\u003e-A LETTER FROM KING FREDERICK TO HIS SISTER WILHELMINE\u003cbr\u003e-THE HALLER-MAUPERTUIS EXCHANGE\u003cbr\u003e-A SYMPATHETIC LETTER FROM A FRIEND AT COURT\u003cbr\u003e-DIDEROT ATTACKS LA METTRIE\u003cbr\u003e-D'ARGENS \"SACRIFICES\" LA METTRIE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN ANECDOTAL ATHEIST:\u003cbr\u003e-AT EASE WITH THE KING\u003cbr\u003e-A RIDICULOUS MATERIALIST IN THE COURT\u003cbr\u003e-ANECDOTES FROM THE COURT","brand":"Kirk Watson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104034570480,"sku":"2940157912239","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157912239_p0.jpg?v=1764104762","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157912239","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}