Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic: Critical Assessments

by Gideon Freudenthal

Salomon Maimon (1753-1800), one of the most fascinating characters of eighteenth-century intellectual history, came from a traditional orthodox Jewish community in Eastern Europe to Berlin to seek Enlightenment. Maimon remained an outsider: an 'Ostjude' among the enlightened Jews in Berlin, a freethinker among observant Jews and a Jew among the non-Jews. His autobiography became a classic of autobiographical literature of the Enlightenment. His 'inter-cultural'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402014732
• ISBN13: 9781402014734
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.2"