Ways of Releasement

In 1962, Reiner Schürmann began studying at the Dominican school of theology Le Saulchoir, outside Paris. That experience radically shaped his life and work, enabling him to begin to develop many of the ideas for which he would later be known: letting be, life without why, ontological anarchy, and the tragic double bind.

Ways of Releasement contains never before published material from Schürmann's early period, including selections from an early, more Christocentric version of Wandering Joy and several shorter, impassioned writings in which Schürmann tests his faith against Eckhart's teaching of the Godhead, Heidegger's later philosophy, his growing interest in Soto Zen, and the possibilities and limits of language. The volume also contains a report Schürmann wrote about his encounter with Heidegger, a précis of his autobiographical novel Origins , and translations and new editions of later groundbreaking essays. Ways of Releasement concludes with an extensive afterword contextualizing Schürmann's writings in relation to his thinking and life.

Autorentext
Reiner Schürmann wurde 1941 in Amsterdam geboren und verbrachte seine Kindheit und Jugend in Krefeld. Ab 1960 studierte er Philosophie in München, unterbrochen durch einen Aufenthalt in einem israelischen Kibbuz. 1961 trat er als Novize bei den Dominikanern in Frankreich ein und studierte von 196269 Theologie im Saulchoir, Essonne, bei Paris, unterbrochen durch einen Studienaufenthalt in Freiburg i. Br. bei Heidegger. 1970 wurde er zum Dominikanerpriester ordiniert, verließ den Orden 1975 jedoch wieder. Seit den frühen siebziger Jahren lebte Schürmann in den USA und wurde 1975 von Hannah Arendt und Hans Jonas an die New School for Social Research in New York berufen. 1993 starb Reiner Schürmann an Aids. Sein umfangreiches philosophisches Werk verfasste Schürmann in französischer Sprache.

Inhalt
7 - 8 Edition Guidelines 9 - 10 The Reredos (1965) (Reiner Schürmann) 11 - 12 To Live According to the Gospel (1966) (Reiner Schürmann) 13 - 20 Letter to Heidegger, and Schürmann's Report of His Meeting with Heidegger (1966) (Reiner Schürmann) 21 - 28 The Unknown God (1966) (Reiner Schürmann) 29 - 36 A Spiritual Dimension of Technology? (1966) (Reiner Schürmann) 37 - 40 Easter on Christmas: A Sermon on Love and Death (1966) (Reiner Schürmann) 41 - 56 The Philosophical Presuppositions of Meister Eckhart's Christology (1967) (Reiner Schürmann) 57 - 94 The Phenomenon of the Question in Theology (1967) (Reiner Schürmann) 95 - 122 Peregrine Identity (1969) (Reiner Schürmann) 123 - 134 Meister Eckhart, Expert in Itinerancy (1971) (Reiner Schürmann) 135 - 146 Book Reviews about Eckhart (19681974) (Reiner Schürmann) 147 - 154 To Find, at Last, the Origin (1973) (Reiner Schürmann) 155 - 216 Three Thinkers of Releasement: Meister Eckhart, Heidegger, Suzuki (19741975) (Reiner Schürmann) 217 - 224 Commentary on Professor Caputo's Paper Mysticism, Metaphysics and Thought (1976) (Reiner Schürmann) 225 - 266 The Loss of the Origin in Soto Zen and in Meister Eckhart (1978) (Reiner Schürmann) 267 - 296 The Law of Nature and Pure Nature: Thought-Experience in Meister Eckhart (1984/19861987) (Reiner Schürmann) 297 - 304 Introduction to Lecture Course on Meister Eckhart (1993) (Reiner Schürmann) 305 - 310 Appendix 1: The Word of God (1964) (Reiner Schürmann) 311 - 316 Appendix 2: The Unknown God, Early Draft (1966) (Reiner Schürmann) 317 - 320 Appendix 3: Evaluation by Claude Geffré (1967) 321 - 328 Appendix 4: Letters from Bernhard Welte (19671971) 329 - 332 Sources for the Chapters 333 - 416 Editors' Afterword (Francesco Guercio, Ian Alexander Moore) 417 - 418 Acknowledgments 419 - 424 Index nominum