Salomon Maimon

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Maimon, Salomon

(pseudonym of Salomon Heiman). Born 1753 (1754), in Mirts (Mir), near Nesvizh, present-day Byelorussian SSR; died Nov. 22, 1800, in Nieder-Siegersdorf, Silesia. Self-taught philospher, subjective idealist.

Maimon was educated in the Judaic tradition; he became an admirer of the philosophy of Maimonides and as a result changed his surname. In 1777 he settled in Prussia, where he made contact with M. Mendelssohn. Maimon criticized the philosophy of Kant; in particular, he rejected Kant’s “thing-in-itself,” attacking this concept from a position close to the idealistic viewpoints of F. H. Jacobi. Maimon formulated a “principle of determinacy” as the fundamental law of logic.

WORKS

Versuch über die Transcendentalphilosophie. Berlin, 1790.
Versuch einer neuen Logik oder Theorie des Denkens. Berlin, 1794. New edition: Berlin, 1911.
Lebensgeschichte, vols. 1-2. Berlin, 1911. (Russian translation in Evreis kaia biblioteka, vols. 1-2. St. Petersburg, 1871-72.)

REFERENCES

Fisher, K. Istoriia novoi filosofii, vol. 6, St. Petersburg, 1909. Chapters 6-7.
lakovenko, B. “Filosofskie kontseptsii S. Maimona.” Voprosy filosofii i psikhologii, book 4 (p. 114); book 5 (p. 115), 1912.
Atlas, S. From Critical to Speculative Idealism: The Philosophy of S . Maimon. The Hague, 1964.
Bergman, S. H. The Philosophy of S. Maimon. Jerusalem, 1967.
Kozlowski, R. Salomon Maimon jako krytyk i kontynuator filozofii. Poznań, 1969.

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Deleuze's concept of the virtual and the critique of the possible

To underscore his point that the terms of discussion on the status and identity of Blacks and Jews for the past two centuries were set during the Enlightenment, Philipson uses two illustrative autobiographies from the eighteenth century-those by Olaudah Equiano (4) and Salomon Maimon (5)-- and two from the twentieth--by Richard Wright (6) and Alfred Kazin (7)--to outline the major questions he wishes to pursue in the book.

The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America. (Book Reviews)

Finally she examines autobiographies by people who originated from the ghetto, beginning with the unforgettable memoirs of Salomon Maimon and drawing attention particularly to the interesting reminiscences of Sigmund Mayer, a liberal Viennese businessman born in the ghetto of Pressburg (Bratislava).

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