Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement

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.

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Unpublished Sources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