What Is Man and Other Essays
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781605123929 (1605123927)
Publish date: July 1st 2009
Publisher: Akasha Classics
Pages no: 310
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 ...