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The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon's influential and delightfully entertaining memoirSolomon 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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His ill-starred trip to Germany reduced him to total vagabond poverty, but once there he managed to strike up acquaintances with rabbis who recognized his brilliant Talmudic mind and helped get him on his feet. He then worked on and off as a tutor while studying Locke, Hume, Spinoza, Wolff, Leibniz, Mendelssohn, and Kant, and then developing his own theories of transcendental philosophy.
After publishing a comprehensive treatise, he convinced a scholarly friend to send it to Kant himself. When Kant finally read it, in 1790, he proclaimed Maimon one of the very few scholars able to understand his work. Unfortunately, Maimon's enjoyment of this stellar validation was brief: within five years he had died, succumbing "apparently to alcoholism."
Note five middle chapters are devoted to summarizing and explicating 12th-century Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonedes (from whom Maimon took his name) The Guide For The Perplexed. This turgid collection of technical chapters is perhaps better skipped over, as Maimon only gets around to suggesting in a later chapter! ( )