Essay on Transcendental Philosophy

Salomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This is the first English translation of his principal work, first published in Berlin in 1790.

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This translation includes a full introduction to Maimon's work, a glossary and translations of correspondence between Maimon, Kant and the Berlin Journal for Englightenment.

This book expresses Maimon's response to the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and was hugely influential on the course of post-Kantian German Idealism.

Maimon was much-acclaimed as a philosopher by Deleuze and recent work in Deleuze Studies has brought to the fore the enormous influence Maimon had on Deleuze's work.

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Essay on Transcendental Philosophy presents the first English translation of Salomon Maimon's principal work, originally published in Berlin in 1790. Maimon was one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This book expresses his response to the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Kant himself was full of praise for the book and it went on to exercise a decisive influence on the course of post-Kantian German idealism. Yet, despite his importance for the work of such key thinkers as Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, Maimon never achieved the prominence he deserved. Today interest in Maimon's work is increasing rapidly, thanks in large part to prominent acclaim by Gilles Deleuze.

This long-overdue translation brings Maimon's seminal text to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The text includes a comprehensive introduction, a glossary, translator's notes and a fullbibliography. 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 alive the context of the book's publication for the modern reader.

Salomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This is the first English translation of his principal work, first published in Berlin in 1790.

Salomon Maimon (1754-1800) was a German philosopher and one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. Described by Kant as 'my harshest critic', Maimon had an enormous influence on post-Kantian German idealism, as well as on modern Continental philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze.

Nick Midgley is an independent scholar based in London, UK. He co-translated Habermas's 'Dialectical Idealism in Transition to Materialism' in The New Schelling, ed. Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman (Continuum, 2004).

Mergen Reglitz is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK.

Henry Somers-Hall is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published several articles on Gilles Deleuze's relationship to Kant, phenomenology and mathematics.

Alistair Welchman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. He is the co-translator of Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation (CUP, forthcoming).