An Autobiography

by Solomon Maimon, Salomon Maimon, J. Clark Murray

Book Overview

Brilliant and bedraggled, the picaresque Jewish philosopher Solomon Maimon was one of the great thinkers of the eighteenth century. Now the definitive English version of Maimon's remarkable Autobiography, the 1888 translation by J. Clark Murray, is available for the first time in paperback, enhanced with a new introduction by Jewish studies scholar Michael Shapiro.

Wry and spirited, shrewd and unrepentant, Maimon alternated between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252069773
• ISBN13: 9780252069772
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.5"