Grounding Community
Eckhartian Mysticism and Social Reform from the Late Middle Ages to the Fin de Siècle
By (author) Hans Martin Pech
On Mystics and Revolutionaries: Meister Eckhart’s Legacy from the Monastery to Anarchism
How did the thought of Meister Eckhart shape visions of new communities? This study traces the influence of Eckhartian mysticism on reformist, revolutionary, and utopian thought across six centuries, from the Grüne Wörth monastery in fourteenth-century Strasbourg, through Thomas Müntzer’s apostolic theology, Johann Arndt’s devotional writings and the Rosicrucian fictions of Johann Valentin Andreae, and concluding with Gustav Landauer’s anarchist-socialist reading of Eckhart. Across historically disparate discourses, this reception history reveals the pastoral relationship between spiritual guide and less-advanced hopeful of mystical experience as a recurring model of communal organization.
Hans Martin Pech holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (2023). His research spans medieval and early modern literature, focusing on mysticism, and linguistics.
- By (author) Hans Martin Pech
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