What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780520016217 (0520016211)
Publish date: July 23rd 1973
Publisher: University of California Press
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 ...