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Drawing on the latest European Research on Meister Eckhart since 1970, the volume provides a comprehensive rereading of the Life, Works, Career, Trial of Meister Eckhart. Central Philosophical ideas and sources with an account of his preaching, teaching and the reception of his work from the 14th to the 21st century.

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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

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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

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