Meister Eckhart

Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart combines the neoplatonic concept of oneness - the idea that the ultimate principle of the universe is single and undivided - with his Christian belief in the Trinity, and considers the struggle to describe a perfect God through the imperfect medium of language. Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, these works have intrigued and inspired philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and beyond.

'Das sind die Reden, die der Vikar von Thüringen, der Prior von Erfurt, Bruder Eckehart, Predigerordens, mit solchen (geistlichen) Kindern geführt hat, die ihn zu diesen Reden nach vielem fragten, als sie zu abendlichen Lehrgesprächen beieinander saßen.'