The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon
Title | The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon PDF eBook |
Author | Solomon Maimon |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691203083 |
The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon's influential and delightfully entertaining memoir. Solomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. The American poet and critic Adam Kirsch has named it one of the most crucial Jewish books of modern times. Here is the first complete and annotated English edition of this enduring and lively work. Born into a down-on-its-luck provincial Jewish family in 1753, Maimon quickly distinguished himself as a prodigy in learning. Even as a young child, he chafed at the constraints of his Talmudic education and rabbinical training. He recounts how he sought stimulation in the Hasidic community and among students of the Kabbalah--and offers rare and often wickedly funny accounts of both. After a series of picaresque misadventures, Maimon reached Berlin, where he became part of the city's famed Jewish Enlightenment and achieved the philosophical education he so desperately wanted, winning acclaim for being the "sharpest" of Kant's critics, as Kant himself described him. This new edition restores text cut from the abridged 1888 translation by J. Clark Murray, which has long been the only available English edition. Paul Reitter's translation is brilliantly sensitive to the subtleties of Maimon's prose while providing a fluid rendering that contemporary readers will enjoy, and is accompanied by an introduction and notes by Yitzhak Melamed and Abraham Socher that give invaluable insights into Maimon and his extraordinary life. The book also features an afterword by Gideon Freudenthal that provides an authoritative overview of Maimon's contribution to modern philosophy.
Solomon Maimon
Title | Solomon Maimon PDF eBook |
Author | Salomon Maimon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Biography |
ISBN |
Solomon Maimon: an Autobiography
Title | Solomon Maimon: an Autobiography PDF eBook |
Author | Salomon Maimon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Jewish philosophers |
ISBN |
Essay on Transcendental Philosophy
Title | Essay on Transcendental Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Salomon Maimon |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 2010-02-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1441108378 |
Essay on Transcendental Philosophy presents the first English translation of Salomon Maimon's principal work, originally published in Berlin in 1790. In this book, Maimon seeks to further the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by establishing a new foundation for transcendental philosophy in the idea of difference. Kant judged Maimon to be his most profound critic, and the Essay went on to have a decisive influence on the course of post-Kantian German Idealism. A more recent admirer was Gilles Deleuze who drew on Maimon's Essay in constructing his own philosophy of difference. This long-overdue translation makes Maimon's brilliant analysis and criticism of Kant's philosophy accessible to an English readership for the first time. The text includes a comprehensive introduction, a glossary, translators' notes, a bibliography of writings on Maimon and an index. It also includes translations of correspondence between Maimon and Kant and a letter Maimon wrote to a Berlin journal clarifying the philosophical position of the essay, all of which bring the book's context alive for the modern reader.
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon
Title | The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon PDF eBook |
Author | Solomon Maimon |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2019-01-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691163855 |
The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon’s influential and delightfully entertaining memoir Solomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. The American poet and critic Adam Kirsch has named it one of the most crucial Jewish books of modern times. Here is the first complete and annotated English edition of this enduring and lively work. Born into a down-on-its-luck provincial Jewish family in 1753, Maimon quickly distinguished himself as a prodigy in learning. Even as a young child, he chafed at the constraints of his Talmudic education and rabbinical training. He recounts how he sought stimulation in the Hasidic community and among students of the Kabbalah—and offers rare and often wickedly funny accounts of both. After a series of picaresque misadventures, Maimon reached Berlin, where he became part of the city's famed Jewish Enlightenment and achieved the philosophical education he so desperately wanted, winning acclaim for being the "sharpest" of Kant's critics, as Kant himself described him. This new edition restores text cut from the abridged 1888 translation by J. Clark Murray, which has long been the only available English edition. Paul Reitter's translation is brilliantly sensitive to the subtleties of Maimon's prose while providing a fluid rendering that contemporary readers will enjoy, and is accompanied by an introduction and notes by Yitzhak Melamed and Abraham Socher that give invaluable insights into Maimon and his extraordinary life. The book also features an afterword by Gideon Freudenthal that provides an authoritative overview of Maimon's contribution to modern philosophy.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOLOMON MAIMON.
Title | THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOLOMON MAIMON. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic
Title | Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic PDF eBook |
Author | G. Freudenthal |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401729360 |
The essays of leading scholars collected in this volume focus on Salomon Maimon’s (1753-1800) synthesis of 'Rational Dogmatism' and 'Empirical Skepticism'. This collection is of interest to scholars working in the fields of history of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, rationalism and empiricism as well as Jewish Studies.