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Moore, Ian Alexander: Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement

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In Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement, Ian Alexander Moore investigates Martin Heidegger’s use of releasement (Gelassenheit). Moore argues that this conceptual development was greatly influenced by Meister Eckhart’s thought. In addition to their shared use of releasement, Moore suggests, both Heidegger and Eckhart share similar philosophical strategies. The task of Moore’s monograph is to illuminate how releasement functions in Heidegger’s work and to argue that Eckhart was one of Heidegger’s central influences. This review examines Moore’s method for assessing the function of releasement in Heidegger and Eckhart’s thought, while noting the distinctive and compelling aspects of this monograph.

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Notes

  1. For a notable study of Heidegger’s notion of releasement, see Davis (2007).

  2. Moore (2019, p. xiv).

  3. Ibid., p. 8.

  4. Ibid., p. 87.

  5. Ibid., p. 98.

  6. Ibid., p. 101.

  7. Ibid., p. 108.

  8. Ibid., p. 114.

  9. Ibid., p. 111.

  10. Ibid., p. 112.

  11. Ibid., p. 120.

  12. Ibid., p. 121.

  13. Ibid., p. 125.

  14. Heidegger (1966, pp. 45–57).

  15. Moore (2019, pp. 126–128).

  16. Ibid., p. 134.

  17. Ibid., p. 134.

  18. For some views on Heidegger’s teaching style and pedagogy, see Gadamer (1994), Ehrmantraut (2010), Thomson (2005).

  19. Moore (2019, p. xiv); on situating Heidegger’s later thinking relative to hermeneutics, see George (2017).

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Burke, H.I. Moore, Ian Alexander: Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement. Cont Philos Rev 53, 523–527 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-020-09511-y

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