Observation ·
A Radical 18th-Century Jewish Philosopher and His Misbegotten Quest for Total Truth
By Michah GottliebSolomon Maimon abandoned his wife and children in search of intellectual perfection, thereby entirely missing the point.
Michah Gottlieb is associate professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at New York University. His new book, The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.