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Gideon Freudenthal, ed., Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic. Critical Assessments. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Studies in German Idealism, vol. 2. 304 pp.
Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) was, as the editor of this collection writes, "a philosopher between two cultures"-Jewish and philosophic. The Jewish component in Maimon's thought consists mainly of the influence of Maimonides (explicating this influence is itself a controversial topic, as Y. Schwartz makes clear in his contribution), but also of kabbalah, hasidism, talmudic culture, and...