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A Companion to Meister Eckhart
Series: - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 36
Editor:
This book meets an obvious need in English language studies on Meister Eckhart. It is the first handbook on Eckhart for graduate and undergraduate students. It is divided into three parts. Part one deals with the life, works, career, and trial; Greek, Jewish, and Arabic philosophical sources, and some central philosophical ideas. Part two examines Eckhart as a Latin exegete, vernacular preacher, Eckhart's understanding of God, Eckhart as a reader of Maimonides and in relation to women's spirituality. Part three deals with the reception of Eckhart and his works from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first century. It covers fourteenth-century German readers of Eckhart, the fifteenth-century reader Nicholas of Cusa, the sixteenth-seventeenth-century reader Valentine Weigel, the reception of Eckhart in German idealism and romanticism and Eckhart and philosophy in the twentieth century. There is an epilogue on mysticism and philosophy in Eckhart and an appendix on Dominican education in the Middle Ages.
Contributors include Walter Senner OP, Allesandra Beccarisi, Dagmar Gottschall, Loris Sturlese, Tamar Tsopurashvili, Jennifer Hart Weed, Jeremiah Hackett, Udo Kern, Alessandro Palazzo, Eliza Rubino, Donald F. Duclow, Bruce Millem, Markus Enders, Yossef Schwartz, Lydia Wegener, Jack C. Marler, Nadia Bray, Elizabeth Brient, Fiorella Rettucci, Andrew Weeks, Cyril O'Regan, Dermot Moran, Karl Albert and Paul Dietrich
Contributors include Walter Senner OP, Allesandra Beccarisi, Dagmar Gottschall, Loris Sturlese, Tamar Tsopurashvili, Jennifer Hart Weed, Jeremiah Hackett, Udo Kern, Alessandro Palazzo, Eliza Rubino, Donald F. Duclow, Bruce Millem, Markus Enders, Yossef Schwartz, Lydia Wegener, Jack C. Marler, Nadia Bray, Elizabeth Brient, Fiorella Rettucci, Andrew Weeks, Cyril O'Regan, Dermot Moran, Karl Albert and Paul Dietrich
Jeremiah Hackett is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. He was Chair of the Department of Philosophy, 2005-2008. He continues to do research on Roger Bacon, on fourteenth-century German mysticism, and on Renaissance philosophy.
Contributors include Walter Senner OP, Allesandra Beccarisi, Dagmar Gottschall, Loris Sturlese, Tamar Tsopurashvili, Jennifer Hart Weed, Jeremiah Hackett, Udo Kern, Alessandro Palazzo, Eliza Rubino, Donald F. Duclow, Bruce Milem, Markus Enders, Yossef Schwartz, Lydia Wegener, Jack C. Marler, Nadia Bray, Elizabeth Brient, Fiorella Rettucci, Andrew Weeks, Cyril O'Regan, Dermot Moran, Karl Albert, Paul Dietrich.
Contributors include Walter Senner OP, Allesandra Beccarisi, Dagmar Gottschall, Loris Sturlese, Tamar Tsopurashvili, Jennifer Hart Weed, Jeremiah Hackett, Udo Kern, Alessandro Palazzo, Eliza Rubino, Donald F. Duclow, Bruce Milem, Markus Enders, Yossef Schwartz, Lydia Wegener, Jack C. Marler, Nadia Bray, Elizabeth Brient, Fiorella Rettucci, Andrew Weeks, Cyril O'Regan, Dermot Moran, Karl Albert, Paul Dietrich.
“Hackett’s work is a valuable contribution to the field of late medieval theology and will certainly serve as an excellent reference book for those studying the work of Meister Eckhart.”
Anik Laferrière, Keble College, Oxford. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 65, No. 2 (April 2014), pp. 409-411.
''This hefty tome proves to be the first comprehensive introductory work on Meister Eckhart, the famous German theologian […] magisterially and beautifully edited by Jeremiah M. Hackett, it convincingly emerges as a major contribution to current research on and teaching of Meister Eckhart […] the editor and the contributors lay the foundation for future Eckhart research by way of addressing many of the critical issues in this author´s life and works''.
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, 44, No. 4, 2013, p. 1080.
‘’In this substantial volume, Jeremiah M. Hackett and a host of international experts on the life, writings, and reception of the German Dominican preacher and theologian Meister Eckhart (ca. 1250–1327) provide an invaluable service to students and scholars of Eckhart and of late medieval theology, philosophy, and mysticism[…] It is impossible to do justice to a volume of this magnitude in a brief review’’.
Amy Hollywood, Harvard University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1, Spring 2014, pp. 282-283.
Anik Laferrière, Keble College, Oxford. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 65, No. 2 (April 2014), pp. 409-411.
''This hefty tome proves to be the first comprehensive introductory work on Meister Eckhart, the famous German theologian […] magisterially and beautifully edited by Jeremiah M. Hackett, it convincingly emerges as a major contribution to current research on and teaching of Meister Eckhart […] the editor and the contributors lay the foundation for future Eckhart research by way of addressing many of the critical issues in this author´s life and works''.
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, 44, No. 4, 2013, p. 1080.
‘’In this substantial volume, Jeremiah M. Hackett and a host of international experts on the life, writings, and reception of the German Dominican preacher and theologian Meister Eckhart (ca. 1250–1327) provide an invaluable service to students and scholars of Eckhart and of late medieval theology, philosophy, and mysticism[…] It is impossible to do justice to a volume of this magnitude in a brief review’’.
Amy Hollywood, Harvard University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1, Spring 2014, pp. 282-283.
Note on Contributors
Preface
Jeremiah Hackett
PART ONE
Introduction to Part One
Bernard McGinn
Meister Eckhart’s Life, Training, Career, and Trial
Walter Senner OP
Eckhart’s Latin Works
Alessandra Beccarisi
Eckhart as Preacher, Administrator, and Master of the Sentences. From Erfurt to Paris and Back: 1294–1313. The Origin of the Opus tripartitum
Loris Sturlese
Eckhart’s German Works
Dagmar Gottschall
The Theory of Transcendentals in Meister Eckhart
Tamar Tsopurashvili
From Aquinas to Eckhart on Creation, Creature, and Analogy
Jeremiah Hackett and Jennifer Hart Weed
Eckhart’s Anthropology
Udo Kern
Eckhart’s Islamic and Jewish Sources: Avicenna, Avicebron, and Averroes
Alessandro Palazzo
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Eckhart
Elisa Rubino
PART TWO
Introduction to Part Two
Paul Dietrich
Meister Eckhart’s Latin Biblical Exegesis
Donald F. Duclow
Meister Eckhart’s Vernacular Preaching
Bruce Milem
Meister Eckhart’s Understanding of God
Markus Enders
Meister Eckhart and Moses Maimonides: From Judaeo-Arabic Rationalism to Christian Mysticism
Yossef Schwartz
Eckhart and the World of Women’s Spirituality in the Context of the “Free Spirit” and Marguerite Porete
Lydia Wegener
The Mirror of Simple Souls: the Ethics of Marguerite Porete
Jack C. Marler
PART THREE
Introduction to Part Three
Jeremiah Hackett
The Reception of Meister Eckhart in 14th-Century Germany
Nadia Bray
Eckhart and the Vernacular Tradition: Pseudo-Eckhart and Eckhart Legends
Dagmar Gottschall
Meister Eckhart’s Influence on Nicholas of Cusa: A Survey of the Literature
Elizabeth Brient
On a Dangerous Trail: Heinrich Suso and the Condemnation of Meister Eckhart
Fiorella Retucci
Meister Eckhart and Valentine Wiegel
Andrew Weeks
Eckhart Reception in the 19th Century
Cyril O’Regan
Meister Eckhart in 20th-Century Philosophy
Dermot Moran
Epilogue: Meister Eckhart—Between Mysticism and Philosophy
Karl Albert †
Appendix 1: Dominican Education
Walter Senner OP
Bibliography
Preface
Jeremiah Hackett
PART ONE
Introduction to Part One
Bernard McGinn
Meister Eckhart’s Life, Training, Career, and Trial
Walter Senner OP
Eckhart’s Latin Works
Alessandra Beccarisi
Eckhart as Preacher, Administrator, and Master of the Sentences. From Erfurt to Paris and Back: 1294–1313. The Origin of the Opus tripartitum
Loris Sturlese
Eckhart’s German Works
Dagmar Gottschall
The Theory of Transcendentals in Meister Eckhart
Tamar Tsopurashvili
From Aquinas to Eckhart on Creation, Creature, and Analogy
Jeremiah Hackett and Jennifer Hart Weed
Eckhart’s Anthropology
Udo Kern
Eckhart’s Islamic and Jewish Sources: Avicenna, Avicebron, and Averroes
Alessandro Palazzo
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Eckhart
Elisa Rubino
PART TWO
Introduction to Part Two
Paul Dietrich
Meister Eckhart’s Latin Biblical Exegesis
Donald F. Duclow
Meister Eckhart’s Vernacular Preaching
Bruce Milem
Meister Eckhart’s Understanding of God
Markus Enders
Meister Eckhart and Moses Maimonides: From Judaeo-Arabic Rationalism to Christian Mysticism
Yossef Schwartz
Eckhart and the World of Women’s Spirituality in the Context of the “Free Spirit” and Marguerite Porete
Lydia Wegener
The Mirror of Simple Souls: the Ethics of Marguerite Porete
Jack C. Marler
PART THREE
Introduction to Part Three
Jeremiah Hackett
The Reception of Meister Eckhart in 14th-Century Germany
Nadia Bray
Eckhart and the Vernacular Tradition: Pseudo-Eckhart and Eckhart Legends
Dagmar Gottschall
Meister Eckhart’s Influence on Nicholas of Cusa: A Survey of the Literature
Elizabeth Brient
On a Dangerous Trail: Heinrich Suso and the Condemnation of Meister Eckhart
Fiorella Retucci
Meister Eckhart and Valentine Wiegel
Andrew Weeks
Eckhart Reception in the 19th Century
Cyril O’Regan
Meister Eckhart in 20th-Century Philosophy
Dermot Moran
Epilogue: Meister Eckhart—Between Mysticism and Philosophy
Karl Albert †
Appendix 1: Dominican Education
Walter Senner OP
Bibliography
Those interested in Philosophy, Theology, Medieval History, Religious Studies, Mysticism, History of Ideas, German and European History, History of Institutions.