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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 first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon's
delightfully entertaining memoir Solomon Maimon's autobiography has
delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe and
George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. 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 distinguished himself as a prodigy in learning.
After a series of picaresque misadventures, he reached Berlin,
where he became part of the city's famed Jewish Enlightenment and
achieved the philosophical education he so desperately wanted. This
edition restores text cut from the abridged 1888 translation by J.
Clark Murray-for long the only available English edition-and
includes an introduction and notes by Yitzhak Melamed and Abraham
Socher that give invaluable insights into Maimon's extraordinary
life.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1888 Edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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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