Essay on Transcendental Philosophy

by Maimon, Salomon; Welchman, Alistair; Somers-Hall, Henry; Reglitz, Merten; Midgley, Nick

• ISBN13: 9781441154767
• ISBN10: 1441154760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Salomon Maimon (1754-1800) was a German philosopher and one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. Nick Midgley is an independent scholar based in London, UK. He cotranslated 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 teaches Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He is on the editorial board for Pli: The warwick Journal of Philosophy. 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).

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction

Letter from Maimon to Kant

Letter in reply from Kant to Maimon

Letter from Maimon to Berlin Journal for Enlightenment

Essay on Transcendental Philosophy

Dedication

Introduction

Matter, Form of Cognition, from of Sensibility, Form of Understanding, Tim and Space

Sensibility, Imagination, Understanding, Pure A Priori Concepts of the Understanding or Categories, Schemata, Answering the Question Quid Juris, Answering the Question Quid Facti, Doubts about the Latter

Ideas of the Understanding, Ideas of Reason

Subject and Predicate, the Determinable and the Determination

Think, Possible, Necessary, Ground, Consequence

Identity, Difference, Opposition, Reality, Logical and Transcendental Negation

Magnitude

Alteration, Change

Truth, Subjective, Objective, Logical, Metaphysical

On the I, Materialism, Idealism, Dualism Short Overview of the Whole Work My Ontology

On Symbolic Cognition and Philosophical Language

Notes and Clarifications

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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