Ian Alexander Moore 
Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement [EPUB ebook] 

In the late Middle Ages the philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart preached that to know the truth you must be the truth. But how to be the truth? Eckhart’s answer comes in the form of an imperative: release yourself, let be. Only then will you be able to understand that the deepest meaning of being is releasement and become who you truly are. This book interprets Eckhart’s Latin and Middle High German writings under the banner of an imperative of releasement, and then shows how the twentieth-century thinker Martin Heidegger creatively appropriates this idea at several stages of his career. Heidegger had a lifelong fascination with Eckhart, referring to him as ’the old master of letters and life.’ Drawing on archival material and Heidegger’s marginalia in his personal copies of Eckhart’s writings, Moore argues that Eckhart was one of the most important figures in Heidegger’s philosophy. This book also contains previously unpublished documents by Heidegger on Eckhart, as well as the first English translation of Nishitani Keiji’s essay ‘Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Meister Eckhart, ‘ which he initially gave as a presentation in one of Heidegger’s classes in 1938.

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Acknowledgments

General Introduction




Part I.


1. The Thinker and the Master: Heidegger on Eckhart



Part II.



Introduction



2. Thinking, Being, and the Problem of Ontotheology in Eckhart’s Latin Writings



3. Become Who You Are: The Oneness of Thinking and Being as Releasement in Eckhart’s German Writings



4. Eckhart’s Strategies for Cultivating Releasement




Part III.


Introduction



5. The Middle Voice of Releasement in Heidegger’s Lecture Courses, 1928-30



6. Violent Thinking and Being in Heidegger’s
Introduction to Metaphysics, 1935



7. Releasement as the Essence of Thinking and Being in Heidegger’s First ‘Country Path Conversation, ‘ 1945



Conclusion



Appendix One

Materials on Heidegger’s Relation to Eckhart



1. Editions of Eckhart Consulted, Owned, or Referenced by Heidegger



2. Locations of Heidegger’s References to Eckhart and Pseudo-Eckhart



3. Heidegger’s Citations of Eckhart and Pseudo-Eckhart



4. Heidegger’s Marginalia und Underlining in His Personal Copies of Eckhart



5. Summary of Eckhart’s/Pseudo-Eckhart’s Texts Read or Cited by Heidegger



6. Reports on Heidegger’s Relation to Eckhart



7. Heidegger’s Evaluation of Kate Oltmanns’s Dissertation on Eckhart



8. Heidegger’s Notes on Kate Oltmanns’s Oral Examination



Appendix Two

‘Essentiality, Existence, and Ground in Meister Eckehart, ‘ by Kate Oltmanns



Appendix Three

‘Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Meister Eckhart, ‘ by Nishitani Keiji



Notes

Bibliography

Published Primary Sources

Unpublished Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

Over de auteur

Ian Alexander Moore is a faculty member at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the coeditor (with Alan D. Schrift) of
Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings by Jean Wahl.