With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of the late-eighteenth century Jewish Enlightenment. He scandalized rabbinic authorities, embarrassed Moses Mendelssohn, provoked Kant, charmed Goethe, and inspired Fichte, among others. This is the first study of Maimon to integrate his idiosyncratic philosophical idealism with his popular autobiography, and with his early unpublished exegetical, mystical, and Maimonidean work in Hebrew. In doing so, it illuminates the intellectual and spiritual possibilities open to a European Jew at the turn of the eighteenth century.
| ISBN: | 9780804751360 |
| Publication date: | 14th September 2006 |
| Author: | Abraham P Socher |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Genres: |
History of religion Judaism |
With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of the late-eighteenth century Jewish Enlightenment. He scandalized rabbinic authorities, embarrassed Moses Mendelssohn, provoked Kant, charmed Goethe, and inspired Fichte, among others. This is the first study of Maimon to integrate his idiosyncratic philosophical idealism with his popular autobiography, and with his early unpublished exegetical, mystical, and Maimonidean work in Hebrew. In doing so, it illuminates the intellectual and spiritual possibilities open to a European Jew at the turn of the eighteenth century.
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon features in the following genres: History of religion, Judaism
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon is available in Hardback
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon was written by Abraham P Socher and published by Stanford University Press
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon has 248 pages
Yes it is part of Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture series