The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation

Maimon, Solomon

ISBN 10: 0691203083 / ISBN 13: 9780691203089

Published by Princeton University Press, 2020

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Abridged - Annotated edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691203083
• ISBN 13: 9780691203089
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Abraham Socher is associate professor of Jewish studies and religion at Oberlin College. Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Ohio State University. Gideon Freudenthal is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University's Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas.