The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
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The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
By (Author) Solomon Maimon
Edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Edited by Abraham Socher
Afterword by Gideon Freudenthal
Translated by Paul Reitter
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
26th March 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of religion
Philosophy of religion
Judaism
Memoirs
193
Physical Properties
Hardback
336
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon's influential and delightfully entertaining memoir Solomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. The American poet and critic Adam Kirsch has named it one of the most
Reviews
"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Autobiography and Memoir"
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The collaborative product of four scholars, this impressive new edition makes available
Maimons autobiography as he intended it be read.
"This superb new editionedited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Abraham Socher, and skilfully translated by Paul Reitteris the fullest yet available in English: Melamed and Socher have restored text cut in J. Clark Murrays abridged translation of 1888."---Audrey Borowski, Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Abraham Socher is associate professor of Jewish studies and religion at Oberlin College. Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Ohio State University. Gideon Freudenthal is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University's Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas.
