What Is Man?: And Other Irreverent Essays
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781591026853 (1591026857)
Publish date: January 30th 2009
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Pages no: 229
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 ...