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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 330: Making Eckhart Legendary

Monday 12 July 2010, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Eckhart Society / Meister Eckhart Gesellschaft
Organiser:Jonathan Sutton, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Russian & Slavonic Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Freimut Löser, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Augsburg
Paper 330-a'Meister Eckhart sprichet': On the Problem of Pseudo-Eckhart
(Language: English)
Dagmar Gottschall, Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft / Dipartimento di Filologia classica & scienze filosofiche, UniversitĂ  del Salento, Lecce
Index terms: Religious Life, Theology
Abstract

Jan A. Aertsen called Eckhart 'the most controversial thinker of the Middle Ages' (1996) and his teaching has been characterised by Bernard McGinn as 'anomalous, if not exactly subversive' (2001), with an enormous influence both during and beyond his life-time. This session looks at some of those influences, especially as we have learned that understanding Eckhart benefits enormously from learning about those who read him before or were influenced by his teaching. The papers treat Eckhart not just as a historical figure, but as a legend 'unconfused by facts'.