Essay on Transcendental Philosophy presents the first English translation of Salomon Maimon's principal work, originally published in Berlin in 1790. In this book, Maimon seeks to further the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by establishing a new foundation for transcendental philosophy in the idea of difference. Kant judged Maimon to be his most profound critic, and the Essay went on to have a decisive influence on the course of post-Kantian German Idealism. A more recent admirer was Gilles Deleuze who drew on Maimon's Essay in constructing his own philosophy of difference. This long-overdue translation makes Maimon's brilliant analysis and criticism of Kant's philosophy accessible to an English readership for the first time. The text includes a comprehensive introduction, a glossary, translators' notes, a bibliography of writings on Maimon and an index. 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 the book's context alive for the modern reader.

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Publisher

Continuum

Year

2010

ISBN

9781441108371

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Modern Philosophy

Contents
The Translators
Introduction to the Translation
Note on the Translation
Note on page numbering, notes, references and typography
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1 Matter, Form of Cognition, Form of Sensibility, Form of Understanding, Time and Space
Chapter 2 Sensibility, Imagination, Understanding, A Priori Concepts of the Understanding or Categories, Schemata, Answer to the Question Quid Juris?, Answer to the Question Quid Facti?, Doubts about the Latter
Chapter 3 Ideas of the Understanding, Ideas of Reason, etc.
Chapter 4 Subject and Predicate. The Determinable and the Determination
Chapter 5 Thing, Possible, Necessary, Ground, Consequence, etc.
Chapter 6 Identity, Difference, Opposition, Reality, Logical and Transcendental Negation
Chapter 7 Magnitude
Chapter 8 Alteration, Change, etc.
Chapter 9 Truth, Subjective, Objective, Logical, Metaphysical
Chapter 10 On the I, Materialism, Idealism, Dualism, etc.
Short Overview of the Whole Work
My Ontology
On Symbolic Cognition and Philosophical Language
Notes and Clarifications on Some Passages of this Work whose Expression was Concise
Appendix I: Letter from Maimon to Kant
Appendix II: Letter from Kant to Herz
Appendix III: Maimon's Article from the Berlin Journal for Enlightenment
Appendix IV: Newton's Introduction to the Quadrature of Curves
Glossary of Philosophical Terms and their Translations
Bibliography
Index