Abstract: Discours preliminaire was written as an introduction to La Mettrie's Philosophical Works, and hence exists only in the version in which it appeared there. It incorporates some material originally included in the conclusion of the Natural History of the Soul and removed from the Treatise on the Soul, as well as some elements of self-defence developed in his Réponse à un libelle (Reply to a Pamphlet), published in the third volume of L'Ouvrage de Pénélope (Penelope's Work) in 1750. Later editions of the Works present minor variations in this text, but we have no way of knowing whether they were the author's doing. The text translated here is therefore that of 1750, which I edited in 1981.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-06-15
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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