 Kant’s recognition opened for Maimon the salons of Berlin as well as the contemporary leading journals, in which Maimon started publishing. The story of the crude genius who came from the East and penetrated the heart of German philosophy became a common topic of small talk in these circles. In 1790, Maimon published an expanded version of his comments of Kant’s first Critique as the Versuch über die Transcendentalphilosophie (“An Essay on Transcendental Philosophy”). A year later, Maimon collaborated with the members of the Jewish Enlightenment and prepared a Hebrew commentary on Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. (The publisher decided to publish only the first part of this work, since he found Maimon’s commentary much too deep philosophically, and thus unfitting for the political purposes of propagating the ideology of the enlightenment among the Jews.)