Original editions of Maimon’s main Works

• Versuch über die Transcendentalphilosophie [VT], Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voss und Sohn, 1790.
• Gibeath Hamore (The Hill of the Guide), Berlin: 1791.
• Philosophisches Wörterbuch, oder Beleuchtung der wichtigsten Gegenstände der Philosophie, in alphabetischer Ordnung [PW], Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1791.
• Salomon Maimon‘s Lebensgeschichte. Von ihm selbst geschrieben und herausgegeben von K. P. Moritz [LB], Berlin: Friedrich Vieweg, 1792–3. (Scholar)
• Ankündigung und Aufforderung zu einer allgemeinen Revision der Wissenschaften: Einer königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin vorgelegt von Salomon Maimon, Berlin: Johann Georg Langhoff, 1792.
• Bacons von Verulam neues Organon, edited with notes by Maimon, 2 volumes, Berlin: Gottfried Carl Nauck, 1793.
• Über die Progressen der Philosophie (veranlat durch die Preisfrage der königl. Akademie zu Berlin für das Jahr 1792: Was hat die Metaphisik seit Leibniz und Wolf für Progressen gemacht?), Berlin: Wilhelm Vieweg, 1793. (Scholar)
• Salomon Maimon‘s Streifereien im Gebiete der Philosophie, Berlin: Wilhelm Vieweg, 1793. (Scholar)
• Die Kathegorien des Aristoteles. Mit Anmerkungen erläutert und als Propädeutik zu einer neuen Theorie des Denkens dargestellt von Salomon Maimon. (“Aristotle’s Categories, with notes and as a propaedeutic to a new theory of thinking”), Berlin: Ernst Felisch, 1794. (Scholar)
• Anfangsgründe der Newtonischen Philosophie von Dr. Pemberton. (translated from the English with introduction and notes by Maimon), First Part, Berlin: Friedrich Maurer, 1793.
• Versuch einer neuen Logik oder Theorie des Denkens. Nebst angehängten Briefen des Philaletes an Änesidemus [VnL], Berlin: Ernst Felisch, 1794.
• Kritische Untersuchungen über den menschlichen Geist oder das höhere Erkenntniss und Willensvermögen [KU], Leipzig: Gerhard Fleischer, 1797.

Modern Editions and Translations of Maimon’s Works

• Maimon, Salomon. Gesamtausgabe, Chief editor: Ives Radrizzani, 10 volumes, Stuttgart-Bad Constatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2023 - [A critical edition of Maimon’s works (7 volumes of German writings, and 3 volumes of the Hebrew writings). The first volume - Aufsätze 1789-1790; Versuch über die Transcendental Philosophie, eds. Maria Caterina Marinelli and Ives Radrizzani - appeared in 2023]. (Scholar)
• –––. Gesammelte Werke [GW], edited by Valerio Verra, 7 volumes, Hildsheim: Olms, 1965–1976.
• –––. Salomon Maimons Lebensgeschichte, edited by Zwi Batscha, Frankfurt a. M: Insel Verlag, 1984.
• –––. Versuch über die Transzendentalphilosophie, edited by Florian Ehrensperger, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag Verlag, 2004. [An excellent new edition of one of Maimon’s major works.]
• –––. Essay on Transcendental Philosophy, translated and edited by Alistair Welchman, Henry Somers-Hall, Merten Reglitz, and Nick Midgley, London: Continuum, 2010. [An outstanding complete translation of one of Maimon’s major works.]
• –––. Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon, translated and edited by Timothy Sean Quinn, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2021.
• –––. Giva’at ha-Moreh, edited by S.H. Bergmann and N. Rotherstreich, Jerusalem: Israeli Academy of Science, 1965; reprinted 2000. [Maimon’s Hebrew commentary on the first part of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed.] (Scholar)
• –––. Letters of Philaletes to Aenesidemus, trans. by George di Giovanni in di Giovanni and H.S. Harris (eds.), in Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001. [The only available English translation of any of Maimon’s philosophical works.]
• –––. The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon, translated by J. Clark Murray, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. [An incomplete translation of Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte.]
• –––. Solomon Maimon’s Autobiography, translated by Paul Reitter. Edited and introduced by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Abraham P. Socher (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 [The first complete English translation of Maimon’s autobiography]). (Scholar)
• –––.“Salomon Maimon’s ‘First Grounds of Natural Right,’” translated by Jason Yonover and Michael Nance. British Journal of the History of Philosophy, 29(1) (2021). (Scholar)
• –––. Commentaires de Maïmonide, edited and translated into French by Maurice-Ruben Hayoun, Paris: Cerf, 1999. [A French translation of two major texts of Maimon dealing with Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed: Maimon’s Hebrew commentary on the first part of the Guide, Giva’at ha-Moreh, and chapters 1–10 of the second part of Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte.]

Unpublished Manuscripts

• Hesheq Shelomo (Solomon’s Desire), Posen 1778. Currently held by the National and University Library, Jerusalem (MS 806426). [This 300 pages long manuscript is comprised of five — rather independent — works. The first text — Ma’ase Nissim — is a commentary on the homiletic book of the medieval talmudist, Nissim of Gerondi. The second text — Eved Avraham — is a super-commentary on Avraham Ibn Ezra’s commentary on the Pentateuch and Psalms. The third text — Ma’ase Livnat ha-Sapir — is an attempt to harmonize some main Kabbalistic doctrines with the teachings of Maimonides. The fourth section — Ma’ase Hoshev — is a 108-page algebra textbook. The fifth and last section — Avarchecha Bahya — is a short exposition of the biblical commentary by Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa (~1255–134) of Saragossa.] (Scholar)
• Ta’alumoth Hochma (Mysteries of Wisdom), Breslau 1786. Currently held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS Mich.186) [A Hebrew treatise on Newtonian physics.] (Scholar)

Missing Manuscripts

Throughout his wanderings Maimon kept manuscripts of several works which he never published. After his death, Maimon’s patron, Graf Adolf Kalkreuth, gave the manuscripts to Benjamin Fraenkel from the nearby Jewish community in Glogau. During the 19th century Maimon’s manuscripts and letters were dispersed and held by several prominent Jewish scholars and bibliophiles such as Abraham Geiger, Leopold Zunz and Heimann Michael. The collection of the latter — which included Maimon’s Ta’alumoth Hochma — was purchased by the Bodleian library in 1848. Several other manuscripts found different ways to the collection of the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums where they were held till World War II. Before and during the war the Hochschule’s collection was smuggled out of Germany. The most important Maimonian MS held by the Hochschule arrived, in the 1980s, at the National and University Library in Jerusalem. Other manuscripts of Maimon, held before the war by various individuals and institutions, are still missing. The authors of this entry participate in the search after these missing manuscripts (and letters), the most important of which are:

• The Early Commentary on Maimonides’ Guide. [A text which Maimon wrote before his first arrival in Berlin]. (Scholar)
• Maimon’s Hebrew translation of Mendelssohn’s Morgenstunden. (Scholar)
• Parts two and three of Giva’ath ha-Moreh. [In his Autobiography Maimon writes that these parts were ready to print and were supposed to be published soon thereafter. Apparently, the publishers were not interested in the work due to its lack of popular appeal]. (Scholar)
• A fragmentary commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics. (Scholar)
• Die Mysterien der Philosophie (“The Mysteries of Philosophy”). [Apparently, a complete book, ready for print.] (Scholar)
• Über Logik (“On Logic”). [Mainly remarks on Kiesewetter’s book on logic]. (Scholar)

Selected Secondary Literature

• Atlas, Samuel, 1964. From Critical to Speculative Idealism: The Philosophy of Solomon Maimon, The Hague: Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• Baumgardt, David, 1963. “The Ethics of Salomon Maimon,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1: 199–210. (Scholar)
• Beiser, Fredrick C., 1987. The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 285–323. (Scholar)
• Bergman, Shmuel Hugo, 1967. The Philosophy of Solomon Maimon, translated from the Hebrew by Noah J. Jacobs, Jerusalem: Magnes Press. (Scholar)
• Bransen, Jan, 1991. The Antinomy of Thought: Maimonian Skepticism and the Relation between Thoughts and Objects, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
• Breazeale, Daniel, 2017. “Philosophy and the ‘Method of Fictions’: Maimon’s Proposal and its Critics,” European Journal of Philosophy, 26: 702–16. (Scholar)
• Buzaglo, Meir, 2002. Solomon Maimon: Monism, Skepticism and Mathematics, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press. (Scholar)
• Chikurel, Idit, 2020. Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention: Scientific Genius, Analysis and Euclidean Geometry, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• Duffy, Simon, 2014. “Maimon’s Theory of Differentials as the Elements of Intuitio,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 22: 1–20. (Scholar)
• Elon, Daniel, 2021. Die Philosophie Salomon Maimons zwischen Spinoza und Kant. Akosmismus und Intellektkonzeption, Hamburg: Meiner. (Scholar)
• Engstler, Achim, 1990. Untersuchungen zum Idealismus Salomon Maimons, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Fromann-Holzboog. (Scholar)
• Franks, Paul W., 2005. All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Freudenthal, Gideon (ed.), 2003. Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic, Dordrecht: Kluwer. [A recent collection of essays on Maimon’s philosophy.] (Scholar)
• Freudenthal, Gideon, 2006. Definition and Construction. Salomon Maimon’s Philosophy of Geometry (Preprint 317), Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. (Scholar)
• Hoiznman, Aharon, 1962. Yalkut Divrei Aharon, Jerusalem: Erez Press. (Scholar)
• Gueroult, Martial, 1930. La philosophie transcendentale de Salomon Maimon, Paris: Societe d’edition. (Scholar)
• Jacobs, Noah J., 1966. “Schrifttum über Salomon Maimon: Eine Bibliographie mit Anmerkungen,” in Wolfenbütteler Studien zur Aufklärung, 4 (Wolfenbüttel: 1977), 353–395. [A comprehensive bibliography of Maimon’s writings and secondary literature. Originally appeared in the Hebrew journal Kiryat Sefer, 41 (1966). For an updated bibliography of Maimon’s works, see Freudenthal 2003, 263–272.] (Scholar)
• Kunze, Friedrich, 1912. Die Philosophie Salomon Maimons, Heidelberg: Carl Winter. (Scholar)
• Lachterman, David, 1992. “Mathematical Construction, Symbolic Cognition and the Infinite Intellect: Reflections on Maimon and Maimonides,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 30: 497–522. (Scholar)
• Look, Brandon, 2017. “Maimon and Kant on the Nature of Mind,” in Corey Dyck and Falk Wunderlich (eds.), Kant and his German Contemporaries, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 94–110. (Scholar)
• Melamed, Yitzhak Y., 2004. “Salomon Maimon and the Rise of Spinozism in German Idealism,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 42: 67–96. (Scholar)
• Melamed, Yitzhak Y., 2018. “Spinozism, Acosmism and Hassidism: A Closed Circle” in Amit Kravitz and Jörg Noller (eds.), The Concept of Judaism in German Idealism, Suhrkapm Verlag, 75–85. (Scholar)
• Melamed, Yitzhak Y., 2021. “Maimon’s ‘Law of Determinability’ and the Impossibility of Shared Attributes,” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 109: 49–62. (Scholar)
• Nisenbaum, Karin, 2016. “The Legacy of Salomon Maimon: Philosophy as a System Actualized in Freedom,” Journal of Philosophical Research, 41: 453–498. (Scholar)
• Pollock, Bejamin, 2020. “Practical Reason? Salomon Maimon and the Problem of Moral Representation,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 58: 727–753 (Scholar)
• Quinn, Timothy, 2018. “Salomon Maimon’s Attempt at a New Presentation of the Principle of Morality and a New Deduction of its Reality,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27(1): 155–182. (Scholar)
• Rosenstock, Bruce, 2014. “God…has sent me to Germany: Salomon Maimon, Friedrich Jacobi, and the Spinoza Quarrel,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, 52: 287–315. (Scholar)
• Schechter, Oded, 2003. “The Logic of Speculative Philosophy and Skepticism in Maimon’s Philosophy: Satz der Bestimmbarkeit and the Role of Synthesis,” in Freudenthal 2003, 18–53. (Scholar)
• Schmid, Jelscha, 2021. “Fictions of Systematicity: Maimon’s Quest for Scientific Method in Philosophy,” Philosophers’ Imprint, 21(36). [Schmid 2021 available online (Scholar)
• Socher, Abraham P., 2006. The Radical Enlihtenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and philosophy, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Thielke, Peter, 2001. “Getting Maimon’s Goad: Discursivity, Skepticism, and Fichte’s Idealism,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 39(1): 101–134. (Scholar)
• Thielke, Peter, 2014. “Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism: The Curious Case of Maimon’s Coalition-System,” in Matthew Altman (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 222–242. (Scholar)
• Ware, Owen, 2019. “Freedom Immediately After Kant,” European Journal of Philosophy, 27(4): 865–881. (Scholar)
• Yonover, Jason, 2018. “Goethe, Maimon, and Spinoza’s Third Kind of Cognition,” Goethe Yearbook, 25: 267–288. (Scholar)
• Zac, Sylvain, 1988. Salomon Maimon — Critique de Kant, Paris: Cerf. (Scholar)