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Book SynopsisSalomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This translation of his principal work, "Essay on Transcendental Philosophy", expresses Maimon's response to the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".
Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction; Letter from Maimon to Kant; Letter in reply from Kant to Maimon; Letter from Maimon to Berlin Journal for Enlightenment; Essay on Transcendental Philosophy; Dedication; Introduction; 1. Matter, Form of Cognition, Form of Sensibility, Form of Understanding, Tim and Space; 2. Sensibility, Imagination, Understanding, Pure A Priori Concepts of the Understanding or Categories, Schemata, Answering the Question Quid Juris, Answering the Question Quid Facti, Doubts about the Latter; 3. Ideas of the Understanding, Ideas of Reason; 4. Subject and Predicate, The Determinable and the Determination; 5. Think, Possible, Necessary, Ground, Consequence; 6. Identity, Difference, Opposition, Reality, Logical and Transcendental Negation; 7. Magnitude; 8. Alteration, Change; 9. Truth, Subjective, Objective, Logical, Metaphysical; 10. On the I, Materialism, Idealism, Dualism; Short Overview of the Whole Work; My Ontology; On Symbolic Cognition and Philosophical Language; Notes and Clarifications; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
