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The Maimonian Turn: A Critical Exposition of the Essay on Transcendental Philosophy and its Foundational Role in German Idealism

Salomon Maimon’s 1790 Essay on Transcendental Philosophy stands as one of the most acute and consequential engagements with Immanuel Kant’s critical project.1 Arriving on the philosophical scene as a self-taught Lithuanian Jewish scholar on the margins of the Berlin Enlightenment, Maimon produced a critique so profound that Kant himself admitted that "none of my critics understood me and the main questions as well as Herr Maimon does".2 Maimon’s analysis was not a simple refutation but a deep, internal deconstruction that exposed the latent dualisms and unexamined assumptions at the heart of the