What Is Man? and Other Essays
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780548223154 (0548223157)
Publish date: July 1st 2007
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Pages no: 380
Edition language: English
A non-satirical work by Twain in the form of Socratic-like dialogue between an Old Man arguing that man is merely a machine with no free will or self-sacrifice (a determinist) and a Young Man who is hesitant to believe him without requiring much elaboration first. This has been on my mental to-read ...