Maimon's Essay on a New Logic or Theory of Thinking: A Translation and Commentary

Author:   Timothy Franz (Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780197658420


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   23 October 2024
Format:   Hardback
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This is the first English translation of Salomon Maimon's Essay on a New Logic or Theory of Thinking, originally published in Berlin in 1794. Maimon came from an impoverished yet culturally rich Lithuanian Jewish background to write brilliantly speculative philosophy in Germany in the immediate wake of Immanuel Kant's revolutionary Critique of Pure Reason. His passionate search for the truth quickly led him to try to complete Kant's conceptual system in ways that inspired Fichte's philosophy of the transcendental self and anticipated Schelling's and Hegel's philosophies of the world-soul. However, Maimon grew beyond these initial ideas to develop a sophisticated philosophy of reflection. He argued that philosophical knowledge must arise from reflection on the principles of valid cognition. In the New Logic, he conducts this reflection and develops from it systematic accounts of logic, cognition, scientific methodology, and metaphysics. He presents it as a unified improvement of Kant's Critique. Maimon also based his mature philosophies of ethics, natural rights, aesthetics, and religion on this work.Timothy Franz translates the New Logic along with the Letters of Philalethes to Aenesidemus, in which Maimon imagined conversations with his contemporaries, two hostile reviews which Maimon vigorously annotated, and relevant letters to Kant, Reinhold, and Fichte. Franz prefaces the text with a new history of Maimon's intellectual development, an introduction that relates the New Logic to contemporary Kant scholarship, and a detailed philosophical commentary that attempts to reconcile Maimon's idiosyncratically disjointed writing style with his underlying systematic vision, making the New Logic available for further study.

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Author:   Timothy Franz (Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780197658420


ISBN 10:   0197658423
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   23 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   To order   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface Translator's Introduction Philosophical Commentary Selected Bibliography Epigraph Dedication to the Lord Reviewers Preface Chapter One: Of Logic in General Chapter Two: Of Thinking in General Chapter Three: Of Concepts Chapter Four: Of Judgments Chapter Five: Of Inferences Chapter Six: Of Mediate Inferences Chapter Seven: Of Compound Inferences Chapter Eight: [Of Cognition] Chapter Nine: Critique of the Cognitive Capacity Chapter Ten: [Derivation of the Categories] Chapter Eleven: [The Transcendental Deduction] Chapter Twelve: [Pure Reason and Illusion] Chapter Thirteen: The Transcendental Dialectic Notes and Clarifications Letters of Philalethes to Aenesidemus First Letter Second Letter Third Letter Fourth Letter Fifth Letter Sixth Letter Seventh Letter Appendix 1. Maimon's Letter to Kant of December 2nd, 1793. Appendix 2. Illuminated Review of Maimon's Quarrels in the Realm of Philosophy Appendix 3. Illuminated Review of Maimon's On the Progress of Philosophy Appendix 4. Maimon's Letter to Reinhold of May 24th, 1794. Appendix 5. Maimon's Letter to Fichte of Aug. 16th, 1794. Appendix 6. Maimon's Letter to Fichte of Oct. 16th, 1794. Glossary Index

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Timothy Franz is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the FONDECYT program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his PhD at the New School, where his dissertation,

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