July 11
Workshop on Salomon Maimon
Caterina Marinelli (Rome/Munich)
‘Quid facti?’ The “zweihörnichtes Dilemma” of Transcendental Philosophy
Marialena Karampatsou (Humboldt)
A System of Rationalism, Skepticism and Realism: Maimon and the Kantian Thing in Itself
Ives Radrizzani (Munich)
Maimon, Reader of Fichte
Daniel Elon (Bochum)
Maimon’s Philosophy Between Hume and Spinoza
Yitzhak Y. Melamed (JHU)
Maimon, Spinoza, and Political Theology
Jason M. Yonover (JHU)
Maimon and the Right to Wrong
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*Please note the exceptional start time of 9:45AM Eastern.*
Event summary: This workshop will consist of six papers on varied topics in Salomon Maimon’s theoretical and practical thought, engaging with issues in metaphysics and epistemology as well as political philosophy and the philosophy of religion. It will run from 10AM to 3PM Eastern, with two panels of three papers and an hour break in between. Please see the email announcement for further details.
Daniel Elon is lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Ruhr University, Bochum. He studied philosophy, German literature, and language at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany (2008–2014), earning a B.A. in 2012 and M.A. in 2014. His PhD studies took place in Bochum and at the Universität Hagen in Germany from 2015 to 2020, with visits to Yale University (Visiting Assistant in Research) and Johns Hopkins University (Visiting Graduate Scholar) in 2019. His book Die Philosophie Salomon Maimons zwischen Spinoza und Kant. Akosmismus und Intellektkonzeption [The Philosophy of Salomon Maimon between Spinoza and Kant: Acosmism and the Intellect] was published in 2021 with Meiner.
Marialena Karampatsou has just completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in Jewish Scepticism at the Universität Hamburg. She earned her PhD at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Thus far, her work has focused on Kant’s transcendental idealism and the early, pre-Fichtean criticism thereof—including Maimon’s philosophy and his reading of Kant. Her research on these topics will soon appear as a book entitled Der Streit um das Ding an sich – Systematische Analysen zur Rezeption des kantischen Idealismus 1781–1794 [The Controversy around the Thing-in-Itself: Systematic Analyses of the Reception of Kantian Idealism from 1781 to 1794] in the De Gruyter, “Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie” series.
Maria Caterina Marinelli has just completed a PhD in Philosophy en cotutelle between Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She is currently working with Ives Radrizzani on the first volume of Salomon Maimon’s Gesamtausgabe, to appear with Frommann-Holzboog.
Ives Radrizzani is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is also an associate editor of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences editions of Fichte’s and Schelling’s writings. Besides his extensive editorial work (he is also the editor of writings by Maine de Biran, Reinhold, Jacobi and Maimon), he is the author of many works relating to German idealism, including monographs, translations and around eighty articles (Kant, Reinhold, Jacobi, Fichte, Schulze, Maimon, Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel and Schelling).
Yitzhak Melamed is Charlotte Bloomberg Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
Jason M. Yonover is Dual PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins University and incoming Desai Family Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University.
A recording of the session will be made available for some time following the event.
(The “Downloads” page is password-protected, and the password is available to all members of the Spinoza and EMP Workshop email list.)