Studien zu Meister Eckhart

This volume collects Kurt Flasch’s writings on Meister Eckhart, published between 1965 and 2022. It unfolds Flasch's philosophical life path via Eckhart and Dietrich von Freiberg, offering his investigations into the consistently and primarily philosophical intent of Meister Eckhart and several early works on Dietrich von Freiberg, written when Flasch was working on the four-volume edition of Dietrich's writings in 1977–1985. They present Dietrich's philosophy and demonstrate its epistemological value for the study of Eckhart without identifying the two colleagues, who, though friends, pursued distinct paths of thought. Other studies examine Eckhart's basic concepts: God, intellect, and image; they survey the new state of research and the impact of Eckhart's thought on the development of philosophy in Germany. Flasch analyzes Eckhart's thought philologically and philosophically-historically. This disturbed some friends of mysticism. Several studies therefore attempt to show that Eckhart's thought loses nothing by holding back the title "mystic" for a while. In addition, the volume presents a series of Eckhart's German sermons, which Flasch translates and explains. It concludes with some new work, most recently Flasch's "Preliminary Studies on Eckhart's Trials", written especially for this volume.