Essay on Transcendental PhilosophyEssay 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. |
Contents
The Translators | vii |
Introduction to the Translation | ix |
Note on the Translation | lvii |
Note on page numbering notes references and typography | lxv |
Acknowledgements | lxvii |
Dedication | 1 |
Introduction | 5 |
Chapter 1 Matter Form of Cognition Form of Sensibility Form of Understanding Time and Space | 11 |
Chapter 9 Truth Subjective Objective Logical Metaphysical | 80 |
Chapter 10 On the I Materialism Idealism Dualism etc | 85 |
Short Overview of the Whole Work | 90 |
My Ontology | 126 |
On Symbolic Cognition and Philosophical Language | 139 |
Notes and Clarifications on Some Passages of this Work whose Expression was Concise | 173 |
Letter from Maimon to Kant | 228 |
Letter from Kant to Herz | 230 |
Chapter 2 Sensibility Imagination Understanding A Priori Concepts of the Understanding or Categories Schemata Answer to the Question Quid Juris?... | 19 |
Chapter 3 Ideas of the Understanding Ideas of Reason etc | 44 |
Chapter 4 Subject and Predicate The Determinable and the Determination | 49 |
Chapter 5 Thing Possible Necessary Ground Consequence etc | 56 |
Chapter 6 Identity Difference Opposition Reality Logical and Transcendental Negation | 63 |
Chapter 7 Magnitude | 68 |
Chapter 8 Alteration Change etc | 70 |
Maimons Article from the Berlin Journal for Enlightenment | 238 |
Newtons Introduction to the Quadrature of Curves | 250 |
Glossary of Philosophical Terms and their Translations | 253 |
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