Meister Eckhart: Analogy, Univocity and Unity

The thought of Meister Eckhart - the Dominican theologian, the preacher, the master of language, the mystic - exudes a remarkable fascination on the modern mind, not the least due to its characteristic interplay of scholastic-academic and vernacular terminology. This volume presents the only book-length study in English of Meister Eckhart the philosopher within the tradition in which his thought is embedded and from which it draws its authority. It shows that even as Eckhart may be justly regarded as a medieval precursor of a modern philosophy of subjectivity, the novelty and continuity of his thought can only be understood in its relation to that of Albert the Great, Aristotle, Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagita, the Liber de causis and the Neoplatonic heritage, Theodoric of Freiberg and Thomas Aquinas as well as Eckhart of Grundig, Jakob of Metz and Johannes Picardi of Lichtenberg. At its center lies the return of the soul, through its detachment from everything corporeal, manifold and temporal, into its ground or spark - into that "something" in the soul where, according to Eckhart, "the ground of God is my ground and my ground is God's ground". The present translation not only revises the German-language original to take account of recent debates in Eckhart-scholarship; it moreover makes accessible to the non-specialist all Latin and Middle High German material, much of it previously not available in any translation at all.Prof. em. Prof. Dr. Burkhard Mojsisch is the author of 'Meister Eckhart: Analogy, Univocity and Unity', published 2001 under ISBN 9789060324653 and ISBN 906032465X.