Essay on Transcendental Philosophy

Salomon Maimon (1754-1800) was a German philosopher and one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. Described by Kant as 'my harshest critic', Maimon had an enormous influence on post-Kantian German idealism, as well as on modern Continental philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze. Alistair Welchman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. He is the co-translator of Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation (CUP, forthcoming). Nick Midgley is an independent scholar based in London, UK. He co-translated Habermas's 'Dialectical Idealism in Transition to Materialism' in The New Schelling, ed. Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman (Continuum, 2004). Mergen Reglitz is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. Henry Somers-Hall is Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has published several articles on Gilles Deleuze's relationship to Kant, phenomenology and mathematics.

[T]his is a remarkable accomplishment which will hopefully set standards for future work on Maimon, both in quality and ... also in the all too rare cooperation between scholars to which this edition testifies.

• Translators' Introduction Note on the Translation Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Matter, Form of Cognition, Form of Sensibility, Form of Understanding, Time 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, etc. 4. Subject and Predicate. The Determinable and the Determination. 5. Thing, Possible, Necessary, Ground, Consequence, etc. 6. Identity, Difference, Opposition, Reality, Logical and Transcendental Negation 7. Magnitude 8. Alteration, Change, etc. 9. Truth, Subjective, Objective, Logical, Metaphysical 10. On the I, Materialism, Idealism, Dualism, etc. Short Overview of the Whole Work My Ontology On Symbolic Cognition and Philosophical Language Notes & Clarifications Appendix I Letter from Maimon to Kant Appendix II Letter from Kant to Herz Appendix III Maimon Article from Berlin Journal for Enlightenment Appendix IV Newton's Introduction to 'The Quadrature of Curves' Glossary Bibliography Index