ISBN: 9780252069772

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 rema… More...

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 nomadic destitution and intellectual swordplay among the Jewish elite of Berlin. The son of a petty merchant in Polish Lithuania, Maimon was a child Talmud prodigy who became increasingly antagonistic toward the Jewish establishment and receptive toward the secular philosophies of Spinoza, Hume, Leibnitz, and Kant.   A perpetual outsider, Maimon observed with an equally sharp eye the excesses of his time and the vicissitudes of his own life. Parallel to his own development as a thinker in the company of Moses Mendelssohn and others, Maimon conveys the physically wretched but spiritually vibrant Polish ghetto, the beginnings of Hasidism (which he denounces as antirationalist), and the world of the wealthy Berlin Jewry who enthusiastically embraced the ideas of the Enlightenment.   Combining philosophical discourse with personal anecdotes that shift abruptly from the tragic to the hilarious and back, Maimon's Autobiography indelibly portrays one man's devotion to truth on his own terms regardless of the cost to himself or others.   New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Philosophy>Philosophy>Philosophy, University of Illinois Press Core >1 >T<

2001, ISBN: 9780252069772

Einleitung: Shapiro, Michael, Übersetzer: Murray, J. Clark, University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, 307 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: B… More...

Einleitung: Shapiro, Michael, Übersetzer: Murray, J. Clark, University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, 307 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: B00W0C7IRO, 0.75 kg, Westlich, Geschichte & Denkschulen, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Philosophen, Profis & Akademiker, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Politik & Geschichte, Judentum, Religion & Glaube, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, Textbooks, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Taschenbücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4201, University of Illinois Press, 2001<

2001, ISBN: 9780252069772

Einleitung: Shapiro, Michael, Übersetzer: Murray, J. Clark, University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, 307 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: B… More...

Einleitung: Shapiro, Michael, Übersetzer: Murray, J. Clark, University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, 307 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: B00W0C7IRO, 0.75 kg, Westlich, Geschichte & Denkschulen, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Philosophen, Profis & Akademiker, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Politik & Geschichte, Judentum, Religion & Glaube, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, Textbooks, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Taschenbücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4201, University of Illinois Press, 2001<

2001, ISBN: 0252069773

[EAN: 9780252069772], Neubuch, [PU: University of Illinois Press], Now available for the first time in paper, the classic translation of the autobiography of one of the great thinkers of … More...

[EAN: 9780252069772], Neubuch, [PU: University of Illinois Press], Now available for the first time in paper, the classic translation of the autobiography of one of the great thinkers of the eighteenth century Translator(s): Murray, J. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; HPC; HRAB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334. . 2001. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland., Books<