Essay on transcendental philosophy
By: Salomon Maimon ; translated by Nick Midgley ... [et. al] ; introduction and notes by Nick Midgley ; note on the translation by Alistair Welchman
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781441154767; 9781441113849
Work titles: Versuch über die Transzendentalphilosophie
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Matter, form of cognition, form of sensibility, form of understanding, time and space; title: 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; title: Ideas of the understanding, ideas of reason, etc.; title: Subject and predicate. The determinable and the determination; title: Thing, possible, necessary, ground, consequence, etc.; title: Identity, difference, opposition, reality, logical and transcendental negation; title: Magnitude; title: Alteration, change, etc.; title: Truth, subjective, objective, logical, metaphysical; title: On the I, materialism, idealism, dualism, etc.; title: Short overview of the whole work; title: My ontology; title: On symbolic cognition and philosophical language.