Salomon Maimon's Life; or, the History of the Imagining I

How might we read Salomon Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte as a work of philosophy in its own right? What would such a reading mean for the way we understand his thought? While the self-authored history of Maimon’s life has garnered much attention since being first published in 1792, it has been predominantly read as the mere story of a somewhat idiosyncratic philosopher striving towards wisdom and truth. By simply paying close attention to certain phrases employed within the book, and elucidating the