Companion to Meister Eckhart

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.

• Note on ContributorsPrefaceJeremiah HackettPART ONEIntroduction to Part OneBernard McGinn Meister Eckhart’s Life, Training, Career, and TrialWalter Senner OP Eckhart’s Latin WorksAlessandra BeccarisiEckhart as Preacher, Administrator, and Master of the Sentences. From Erfurt to Paris and Back: 1294–1313. The Origin of the Opus tripartitumLoris SturleseEckhart’s German WorksDagmar Gottschall The Theory of Transcendentals in Meister EckhartTamar Tsopurashvili From Aquinas to Eckhart on Creation, Creature, and AnalogyJeremiah Hackett and Jennifer Hart Weed Eckhart’s AnthropologyUdo Kern Eckhart’s Islamic and Jewish Sources: Avicenna, Avicebron, and AverroesAlessandro Palazzo Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and EckhartElisa Rubino PART TWOIntroduction to Part TwoPaul Dietrich Meister Eckhart’s Latin Biblical ExegesisDonald F. DuclowMeister Eckhart’s Vernacular PreachingBruce Milem Meister Eckhart’s Understanding of GodMarkus EndersMeister Eckhart and Moses Maimonides: From Judaeo-Arabic Rationalism to Christian MysticismYossef Schwartz Eckhart and the World of Women’s Spirituality in the Context of the “Free Spirit” and Marguerite PoreteLydia Wegener The Mirror of Simple Souls: the Ethics of Marguerite PoreteJack C. Marler PART THREEIntroduction to Part ThreeJeremiah Hackett The Reception of Meister Eckhart in 14th-Century GermanyNadia Bray Eckhart and the Vernacular Tradition: Pseudo-Eckhart and Eckhart LegendsDagmar Gottschall Meister Eckhart’s Influence on Nicholas of Cusa: A Survey of the LiteratureElizabeth Brient On a Dangerous Trail: Heinrich Suso and the Condemnation of Meister Eckhart Fiorella Retucci Meister Eckhart and Valentine WiegelAndrew WeeksEckhart Reception in the 19th CenturyCyril O’ReganMeister Eckhart in 20th-Century Philosophy Dermot MoranEpilogue: Meister Eckhart—Between Mysticism and PhilosophyKarl Albert †Appendix 1: Dominican EducationWalter Senner OP Bibliography

“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.