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An Autobiography (Paperback)
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Brilliant and bedraggled, the picaresque Jewish philosopher Solomon
Maimon was one of the great thinkers of the eighteenth century. Now
the definitive English version of Maimon's remarkable
Autobiography, the 1888 translation by J. Clark Murray, is
available for the first time in paperback, enhanced with a new
introduction by Jewish studies scholar Michael Shapiro. Wry and
spirited, shrewd and unrepentant, Maimon alternated between nomadic
destitution and intellectual swordplay among the Jewish elite of
Berlin. The son of a petty merchant in Polish Lithuania, Maimon was
a child Talmud prodigy who became increasingly antagonistic toward
the Jewish establishment and receptive toward the secular
philosophies of Spinoza, Hume, Leibnitz, and Kant. A perpetual
outsider, Maimon observed with an equally sharp eye the excesses of
his time and the vicissitudes of his own life. Parallel to his own
development as a thinker in the company of Moses Mendelssohn and
others, Maimon conveys the physically wretched but spiritually
vibrant Polish ghetto, the beginnings of Hasidism (which he
denounces as antirationalist), and the world of the wealthy Berlin
Jewry who enthusiastically embraced the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Combining philosophical discourse with personal anecdotes that
shift abruptly from the tragic to the hilarious and back, Maimon's
Autobiography indelibly portrays one man's devotion to truth on his
own terms regardless of the cost to himself or others.
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