The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon

Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy

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ID19984435
AuthorsAbraham P Socher (corresponding author)
Year2006
Pages248
Publication date2006-09-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe radical enlightenment of Solomon Maimon (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11126/stanford/9780804751360.001.0001
OpenAlexW4239235060
Open LibraryOL22738671M
ISBN9780804751360
GOOGLE_BOOK_ID6DySseP0-DgC
LanguageEN
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With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Solomon Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of the late eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment. He scandalized rabbinic authorities, embarrassed Moses Mendelssohn, provoked Immanuel Kant, charmed Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and inspired Johann Gottlieb Fichte, among others. This study of Maimon integrates his idiosyncratic philosophical idealism with his popular autobiography, and with his early exegetical, mystical, and Maimonidean work in Hebrew. In doing so, it illuminates the intellectual and spiritual possibilities open to a European Jew at the turn of the nineteenth century

Art · Art history · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Hebrew · Idealism · Judaism · Literature · Mysticism · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · 1754-1800 · Haskalah · Jewish · Jewish philosophy · Maimon, solomon · Salomon Maimon (1754-1800)

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