Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

“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.